On Writing Villains

Alex Epstein uses the current skirmish in the Culture Wars as a teaching moment on writing villains: But trying giving your villain such a convincing argument that the audience, for one brief moment at least, almost starts to take his side. Good villains have motives, even if they aren’t reasonable or justified, but they must be believable.

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