Is your villain dark enough?\u00a0Steven 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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
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