Frank Matowski is dead. All of the characters are connected and I have given away nothing of the plot in the first sentence. I have made it past the first hump–past everything that was already plotted. Now comes the challenge–bringing everyone to the climax, making the villains more evil than they are…not that the heroes are all that good, but everything is relative.
It has always been a challenge to write truly evil characters–it’s almost as if I’m embarrassed to admit what sinister things pop into my mind for these characters to do. None of them are pure evil, though and I get caught up trying to keep everyone human. I think though, that for the first draft, I am going to commit and go balls to the wall (if you’ll pardon the expression) and write everyone the way I feel they should be written. It’s easier to scale back during edits than to develop the character further. It’s a lot of fun, though, dealing with characters who are capable of almost anything, while having all of their actions within the realm of belief.
