“Double, Bubble, Boil and Trouble…”

A good reflection on evil, readers: Just How Clever is Evil? Macbeth Finds Out… June 17, 2014 They tell you what you will gain but never what you will lose. They tell you that you are entitled to the pleasure of the world that you deserve, but they never tell the price you will pay.…

Writerly Sound Bites, Number 3: The Worship of Evil – Or, “The Villain Is the Hero of His Own Story”

It might be an old – and somewhat uncouth – meme, but it makes the point. Slap an unhappy backstory on a villain, and odds are that someone somewhere will ask whether or not he is “really the bad guy.” How can Thanos, for example, be considered evil when he just wants to prevent other…