Tag: Antagonist
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How to Build a Better Alcoholic
I’m in Chapter Twelve (Drug Abuse) of Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think. Substance abuse is the largest cause of crime and the most predominant influence on criminal…
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Creating a Better Hitman
I’m in Chapter Eleven of Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think. It’s called Wise Guys and Hitmen. In my last post, I covered the mafia character. Today I’ll focus on Hit…
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Building a Better Mafia
I’m mining all the goodness out of Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think in an effort to build a better antagonist. I’m delving into Chapter Eleven today, called Wise Gu…
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Sadistic Personality Disorder
This is the last post on the thirteen mental illnesses discussed in Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think. In it, Mactire offers three factors in creating a great antago…
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Self-Defeating Personality Disorder
I’m building believable antagonists using Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think. In it, Mactire offers three factors in creating a great antagonist: the Four Basics (irr…
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
I’m building believable antagonists using Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think. In it, Mactire offers three factors in creating a great antagonist: the Four Basics (irr…
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Malignant Narcissist
I’m building believable antagonists using Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think. In it, Mactire offers three factors in creating a great antagonist: the Four Basics (irr…
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Pardon me for missing last Friday’s post. Summer is a convenient excuse, so I’ll use it. I’m still working on building believable antagonists using Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Othe…
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Dependent Personality Disorder
Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think offers three factors in creating a great antagonist: the Four Basics (irresponsibility, self-indulgence, interpersonal intrusivenes…
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Avoidant Personality Disorder
Sean Mactire’s book Malicious Intent: A Writer’s Guide to How Murderers, Robbers, Rapists, and Other Criminal Think offers three factors in creating a great antagonist: the Four Basics (irresponsibility, self-indulgence, interpersonal intrusivenes…
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