
Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem
Writing Excuses
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How to Make Your Hero as Interesting as Your Villain
To fix the hero problem number one is to have them be passionate about something and number two was to have them accept the call to arms at some point during this the story. There aren't only two ways to do this I'm sure what are the ways to make your hero as interesting as your villain well we had another one which is put a little darkness in them yeah yeah the fatal flawYeah um I'm going to say to make sure that in addition to having a good plot arc in mind that you also have a good character arc in mind okay Think of one or two traits you want that character to develop over the course of the book and then give them the chance to become better
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