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@coggleton

Hmmm…a couple of my thoughts. I have the same problem as you. I’ve got a wizard villain who needs to be horrible, but I’m having trouble writing him that way.

Also, I think see what you mean when you refer to movies. I always feel intimidated by movies, because of all the details they have that I just can’t explain without boring my readers.😆

One thing I would do would be to copy (in theory, not in exact writing) villains that you find in other stories.

Also, I think you might make him almost respectable. Almost super enough that the reader could aspire to his strength and wit. And then make him horrible. I find (for myself) that if I respect a villain first, and then learn how corrupt he is, I’ll hate him more.

For example, I don’t know if you’ve read Magician’s Nephew, but the evil queen, Jadis, is very powerful, very beautiful, and for a split second…as she’s telling her story…you almost feel like she was in the right. Like she could have been good. But she’s not. She’s evil to the core, and she murders her whole kingdom because of it.

I don’t know if that makes any sense.😄 I’m still working through how to make a totally evil bad-guy in my story too. If I sound all jumbled, just ignore my comment.😆