Modern Villains - Writing Strong ...

Modern Villains - Writing Strong Sympathetic Villains (Who Are Still Evil)

Royalty Free - A Writing Podcast por Melissa M. Rivers, Ellie Lerum, and Kaitlyn King
T1 · E19
17 ago 2026
01:14:53

Notas del episodio

On this episode, we discuss how to write villains! We all love talking villains, but we did get a little carried away about discussing how modern villains differ from classic villains. We talk about how sympathetic villains are engaging and that is a great thing modern writers have done well, but we also delve into the fact that some stories just need a good evil villain for the sake of the game.

Plus, you get to listen to me loose my mind because I figuratively forgot how to talk about my fury concerning the atrocities of what happened to Scar in the live action remakes. I'm still not okay over his treatment. (so many options and they didn't take any of them, they chose that route instead!)

This is definitely a topic we'll discuss again, we only scratched the surface of this topic; so if you have any questions or suggestions, we would love to hear from you. Either drop us a review or email us at royaltyfreewritingpodcast@gmail.com and we'd love to incorporate your requests into a future episode. Thanks for listening!

Palabras clave

character creation
how to write character motivation
character motivation
opinion piece
how to world build
villains
how to write villains
how to write evil characters
how to write sympathetic characters
villains you love to hate