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For my last post , I talked about villains and the layering of roles often seen in kids lit: rivals, agents, and the true enemy. I want t...

Antagonists come in many forms: natural disasters, well-meaning friends, or even unwitting coincidence. But I think the most fun to write a...

One of the challenging aspects of writing MG adventure fiction is killing off the bad guy without having your MG characters actually do t...

Humorous writing comes naturally to some, while for others even the idea of “writing funny” causes stress. Humor, like any other...

One of my favorite tropes in literature is “a truce” between the heroes and the villains. Two sides of a conflict realize they must w...

The late, great Sid Fleishman said, “The stronger the villain, the stronger the story.”  Some of the Project Mayhem bloggers have be...

So far in the Project Mayhem series Heroes and Villains , there have been only posts about villains. Why is that? Are heroes B-O-R-I-N-G? T...