Imogen Blake

The Dark Romance Handbook: Writing Antiheroes and Villains (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Love doesn't fix dark characters. It organizes their darkness.

The Dark Romance Handbook: Writing Antiheroes and Villains drills into the engines that power the subgenre's most compelling menpersonal codes, coercive competence, targeted obsessionand shows you how to build them with psychological precision instead of edgy clichés.

In this thirteenth volume, Imogen Blake moves from "what dark romance feels like" to "how dark characters work," giving you concrete methods to build antiheroes and villains whose choices feel inevitable and whose love becomes a boundarynot a cure.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Distinguish antiheroes from villains through code, constraint, and consequenceand build coherent psychologies where wounds become preferences
• Turn possessiveness, obsession, violence, and control into legible patterns on the page
• Write selective empathy, ownership of harm, and competence that actually intimidates
• Craft redemption-as-transformation tied to costly choicesnot moral reform
• Build villains with want, logic, and leveragecredible rivals, not hollow threats
• Escalate tension through structural conflicts: possession vs. preservation, fear vs. love
• Diagnose "sanded edges," false growth, and other draft-killing mistakesand fix them

With subgenre calibrations (mafia, captive, stalker, bully), scene frameworks, and checklists you can apply directly to your manuscript, The Dark Romance Handbook: Writing Antiheroes and Villains will help you create dark leads readers can't stop thinking aboutand villains they'll be afraid to meet twice.

If you want your darkest characters to feel inevitable rather than convenient, frightening rather than farcical, and transformative without becoming tame, this guide will show you how.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: L S Slayford
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232651381
• Artikelnr.: 76064325