I'm currently taking a creative writing specialization course on Coursera. Today in my plot development class we started to discuss the introduction of an antagonist into a plot. It made me realize how in the plots I've developed in my creative mind space don't usually have someone who is a true antagonist and it made me question why. It seems to me that in my real life experience people aren't always an antagonist. They might make something bad for a minute or they might have poor attributes to overcome but they don't stay the antagonist throughout the full story. Then again my story isn't over so...ask me when I'm dead? Haha.
In my class we discussed the plot development of Harry Potter and how the first two antagonists introduced are Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape. It then hit me that sometimes we can go 7 books thinking someone is an antagonist before finding the hero within them. Now that...is great writing!
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