Acting Techniques For Writing Villains

Replacing Tropes And Cliche Characters With Real People

Phil Rossi
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readApr 12, 2019

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It’s always fun for writers to create the bad ass. That evil-as-sin antagonist. The problems often arise when we’re halfway through our stories, and that bad guy runs out of steam.

It’s often a challenging time for writers. We demand more madness and fire from these characters as…

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