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Antagonists can also be more complicated too. In a particular story within my universe, I may choose a name/face to represent the antagonist, but the general antagonist is the collective whole of society, so it’s very multi-faceted in how it wants to screw over my protagonists. And that’s not out of spite or malice, but more in a belief within the society as a whole that they are right, and going about things in the right way.

Antagonists are in many ways the easier to create than protagonists. They laugh,cry and generally do everything the protagonists do. The who what when and why generally take care of the rest.

Leaving breadcrumbs is fun but dangerous. You have to ask. WHo am I leaving these crumbs for? SOmething that will be apparent to people from one cultural or educational background. may not be apparent to another. The problem is, you don’t want to hint too much since people with certain knowledge of genre conventions run the risk of figuring things out first. The best clues, are the ones the reader picks up the second time they read. They will ideally remark. “ohhhhh so that’s why showering in spite of the watter being cold. It was to wash off the blood and mud.” Once your story is resolved and you’ve basically completed your final draft. Go back and sprinkle some details here and there. Not additional details but rather details that one could otherwise infer from what was already there.