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It's time for your villain era

It's time for your villain era

Make it worse, baby

Jan 22, 2025
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Hey, Runners!

How does it feel to know that your job, as a writer of fiction, is to go into someone’s life and make things as difficult as possible for them?

When it comes to your protagonist, that is your job, and it’s something some of us struggle with. We’re nice people, we build our regular lives around being helpful to others, thinking about our live…

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