Reading Time: 6 minutes “Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them–in order that the reader may see what they are made of.” Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut’s quote is shocking. Should we really be sadists and do horrible things to our darling lead characters? I mean, they are the […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.” George R. R. Martin Why should you hide your villain? In the days of the melodramas and silent movies, the villain was often easy to pick out. He often dressed in dark clothes, sneered a lot, and his intentions […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride We spend millions of dollars per year trying to hide those flaws and wrinkles we deem unattractive and humiliating. Dozens, if not hundreds, of magazines, promise ways to either remove or at least hide the blemishes. We earnestly seek any way […]