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What is the purpose of your antagonist.Are they soimply an obstacle, or are they meant to be a straw man, or reflection of the hero? These are the sorts of questions you need to ask. Best advice I’ve heard.? Treat and write your antagonists as if they were the protagonist of a different story centred around the same events. That will generally get you thionking about them interms of who they are and why they are as opposed to them being convenient amorphous plot-spackle .

Easy. DOn’t overthink it. Go with the combination of phonemes that create just the right emotional impact you’re trying to go for.

If you want to leave hints and clues to your mystery, then you’re playing a dangerous game. Keep them subtle enough that the reader will recognize them in hindsight rather than use them as foreshadowing. Or in other words. Make your clues subtle enough that the reader won’t see it on the first read through but will recognize things during the second. The best clues are usually not what you show happening, but rather just alluding to something that happneed off page. Having the main character notice a tear in the cuff of the butler’s sleeve. Have an off hand comment that the woman was seen talking with someone named Marcus.

No set process. I just pick whatever rolls off the tongue. If I get thoughtful about it. I ask myself. What did their parents name them. Which gets me thinking about the background of the parents and the family upbringing. I rarely do that anymore since the name, is basically the most unimportant part of the character. You can name a character anything.A great souding name will not save a poorly written character.

Well, firstly, thank you to Sweetmamajama, for the new signature picture. I think it looks great :). Secondly, new signature pic! :).

Hey all, Just a short note, to let you all know that I've been just a WEE little bit overwhelmed IRL. What this means for us, is that I've had no time to do much in the way of site related tasks. I do apologize to you all for this! Hopefully, work will start easing up again. Keep yer fingers crossed! DemonGoddess061

Melrick will appreciate your volunteerism on this topic (once his computer woes are fixed).