About the training
— 101 to Intermediate Level —
In this workshop, participants will analyze the aspects that make up a villain, including backstory, motivation, and foundational character. Through a series of slides and activities, we’ll explore the spectrum of villainy from darkest evil to gentle grey areas, and discuss how a character’s greatest strengths can also become their greatest weaknesses.
We’ll also examine terms like ‘anti-hero’ and ‘nemesis’, and explore how thought experiments like the trolley problem can be used to create interesting, three-dimensional characters that readers will enjoy.
About Lindz McLeod
Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer and editor who dabbles in the surreal.
She was the Competition Secretary of the Edinburgh Writers’ Club from 2019-2023, and was elected as the Club President in 2023. She is a fiction reader for both the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Awards and Edinburgh Short Story Awards, as well as part of the judging panel for the 2023 Parsec competition and the sole judge for the 2023 Elegant Literature competition. Lindz is an experienced freelance editor and writing coach for both fiction and non-fiction, as well as an experienced workshop host. She is a Rogue Mentor to six talented prose writers as well as one talented playwright via We Are Here. Additionally, she is a full member of the SFWA, the Scottish Writers Association, and the Federation of Writers (Scotland). She has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart prize multiple times, as well as for Best Small Fictions.
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