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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 74 - How to describe our villainous villain, and how to get unstuck.
Description: A great pleasure in our fiction reading is coming across a dastardly villain, someone so bad and so well-described we will never forget him or her. Hannibal Lecter. Nurse Ratched. Huckleberry Finn's father Pap.  How can writers create such a villain? Here are techniques, in particular regarding the physical description of the villain.  Also discussed is how we can get unstuck in our plotting or writing.Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more.  Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes.  The full class—all 20...