About Creating the Bad Guys (ABB)

01/27/2014: Tonight, I was working on creating the Antagonist of the story and his henchmen. Normally, I am OK with creating bad guys. However, tonight I created one that took great pleasure in hurting American POWs when he was an Intelligence Officer for the Germans during WWII. I know that POWs were mistreated during their incarceration in Germany. It goes without saying that things were done to try to extract information that may be used to some advantage by the enemy.

One character, who I hope will meet a horrific ending was created. I was a little troubled in creating this bad guy. It was the background that I was writing almost felt like I was betraying all those men that were held in a POW camp during World War II. You could say I connected with that bad guy at a level that made me hate him right from the start. Still, it did not make me feel any better about creating his history.

I guess as the song by Genesis goes "you gotta get in to get out" applies here. I have to create him to hate him and to get rid of him. Controlling this character's demise will make it all worth the while.

Have you ever connected with a character, in a book, with such emotion?


Thanks for stopping by and talk to you soon,
David
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