{"id":10616,"date":"2005-07-09T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/09\/villainy\/"},"modified":"2005-07-09T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T20:28:01","slug":"villainy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/villainy\/","title":{"rendered":"Villainy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m having a blast working character development for my villain. I should have done all this before beginning to write the book, but, frankly, I didn’t know how. Since this is my second book, and the first, PBOTL<\/strong>, as was thoughtfully pointed out to me, didn’t even have a villain, I believe the mere presence of a villain before I started to write was an improvement. <\/p>\n

Of course, I expect I’ll have to do a complete re-write of the book, but that will bring it closer to the vision I have for it, and I like that idea. The book will be much stronger with a more complete villain, too. I finished question five of 21 today. Question five was a biggie which ties in a lot of the villain’s motivation for doing what he does. With a better understanding of that, I believe I can write the story more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m having a blast working character development for my villain. I should have done all this before beginning to write the book, but, frankly, I didn’t know how. Since this is my second book, and the first, PBOTL, as was thoughtfully pointed out to me, didn’t even have a villain, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twilight","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}