Is your villain dark enough? Steven Pressfield says that your novel’s villain/antagonist is a metaphor for the Kabbalistic concept of Resistance – a force “whose solitary aim is to block the soul from communicating with us and us from communicating with our soul.” The villain – whether a killer like Hannibal Lector or otherworldly being like the Alien – exists to turn the hero from their goal. The Resistance is insidious, indefatigable, dishonest. It’s relentless.
Does your villain have that much motivation? Is your antagonist hellbent on turning your hero away from their goal, on preventing them from speaking to their own soul?
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