The Write Focus
Learn to Twist ~ Antagonists / Quick Tips for Writers 6 / 7:21
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In the Quick Tips series, episodes 6 and 7 are linked, for both are about antagonists, twisty and surprising antagonists.
A truth of conflict is that a weak antagonist creates a weak Protagonist. Since we writers want our main characters to be strong, then the conflict-creator of the story needs to be equally strong.
The first way to do this is to twist our readers’ expectations of the…