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MARSHALL RYAN MARESCA

Category: villains

A Deep Bench of Tertiary Characters

Posted on January 31, 2013

I have to confess, there’s a small part of me that cringes whenever I realize I need another character.  Or characters.  Especially a character with a name.  Because I know, […]

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fantasy / minor characters / process of writing / sci-fi / tools of the writers / villains / Way of the Shield

Perils of the Writer: Villains Made of Straw

Posted on January 14, 2013

One of the easiest traps a writer can fall into is making their villains just be wrong.  Especially if your story has some kind of political slant to it. I […]

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Wide Sprawling Epic Casts

Posted on December 20, 2012

It’s the nature of sci-fi and fantasy to go big, and big means a cast of “main” characters in the dozens, and hundreds of minor characters.  And, as much as […]

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influences / perils of the writer / process of writing / sci-fi / sff / Thorn of Dentonhill / villains / Way of the Shield / writing

Analyzing Flawed Arc Structure, Part 2

Posted on November 29, 2012

As I mentioned earlier, I’m analyzing a flawed structure as part of an exercise to improve my own writing, specifically using the third “Xindi Arc” season of Star Trek: Enterprise. […]

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influences / plotting / process of writing / sci-fi / space opera / Star Trek / structure / tools of the writers / villains / worldbuilding / writers block / writing

Villains with Clear Motives

Posted on September 10, 2012

This weekend I watched last year’s premaquel* of The Thing.  It was… fine.  That’s really all I can say about it.  It achieved its goals, given that its goal was […]

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aliens / movies / perils of the writer / process of writing / villains / writing

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