I may be strange (will fully admit this, by the way) but I love creating the Antagonist so this day has me excited. My thing is that some of my most favorite stories have the most terrible villains. Without a bad guy, we don't have the conflict created to create progress and change in our protagonists.

I like the duality of the antagonist being both the environment and another person. My favorite antagonists are those who have the duality of having some humanity behind their inherent 'badness.'

What happened to them? Just explaining they were born 'bad' feels like a disservice. What turned them to this point of no return?

I think having the environment be an antagonist, in addition, is a fun element. The world doesn't quite accept your character, so they have to battle the societal pressures against them too. With that said, I like protagonists that skirt the line of good/bad themselves so I try to do the same with the ones pitted against my main character.

How do you create the conflict, that antagonist, within your story?

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