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Antagonist

Hey Ryan,

I've been editing our favorite chapter so far, the one where the villain is semi stalking you in the grocery store and all of your 'minions' are helping you avoid him. 

There's a section in here where you go into the history as to how he became your villain. I find it fascinating. I find him more entertaining than your hero actually, because he really isn't a villain, more of an antagonist. He wasn't really the bad guy, he cast himself that way in your story and you wrote him that way. 

It's not as if he emerged from darkness or emptiness, rather he was shaped by the circumstances he was in and by the wounds inflicted by you and the world around him. He reflects depths of human pain, misunderstanding, loneliness and rejection. 

Your hero is defined by acts of bravery. But your villain is the result of a heart that was pure and true, but ended up broken and corrupted. You see, the villain, in his beautiful tragedy displays what can happen to all of us, when the world turns its' back on love that's been lost. You've written him so beautifully. 

This chapter is going to be heart breaking and bittersweet, because after all, the irony is that the love seems to have been there between the hero and the villain all along. 

I've attached a nearly completed rough draft of the chapter. Take your time with it and add and subtract as you need to. 

I'm here for you, you talented man!

Adam

😉 


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