Brian Rathbone's Blog - Posts Tagged "urban-fantasy"
Fantasy author Emmett Spain brings us: What makes a compelling villain?
Fantasy author Emmett Spain has provided a wonderful guest post for my blog.
http://brianrathbone.com/2010/09/18/f...
Excerpt:
The following is a guest post by Urban Fantasy author Emmett Spain. You can check out his novel Old Haunts here
Having watched a copious amount of films and read a few hundred books in my 30 years on this planet, I have read/seen some absolute shockers, been compelled and terrified by the best of the worst, and endured a great deal that were more ho-hum than horrifying. And when you see that many, you start to notice some fairly obvious commonalities.
Let’s start with the scene where the villain gets introduced...
http://brianrathbone.com/2010/09/18/f...
Excerpt:
The following is a guest post by Urban Fantasy author Emmett Spain. You can check out his novel Old Haunts here
Having watched a copious amount of films and read a few hundred books in my 30 years on this planet, I have read/seen some absolute shockers, been compelled and terrified by the best of the worst, and endured a great deal that were more ho-hum than horrifying. And when you see that many, you start to notice some fairly obvious commonalities.
Let’s start with the scene where the villain gets introduced...
