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Oct 10, 2014 at 1:10am
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Oh, right...we need antagonists...
My main characters have so many problems with one another, just dealing with them and their development has taken up all my time. Then I realized...nope. I need bad guys. This is where having a writing partner that lives 5000 miles away becomes a problem, because the only antagonist I know for sure is mostly a shadowy presence in this novel. It's not until the next one that he even shows up except as a voice on the other end of the phone, so to speak.

Why do we need bad guys when our characters are so good and beating themselves up?!

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