Morally Superior Storytelling

The HERO is a combatant. His excellence as such is why he is the hero. The FOOT SOLDIERS OF VILLAINY are combatants. Their ineffectiveness against him is why he is the hero. The VILLAIN is what he is whether a combatant or not. He is dangerous to the hero regardless.

The best villain is the smartest character in the story. It does not matter that his underlings are slaughtered in droves with pathetic ease. His agenda is never about them. He has a grand scheme and so long as it comes to fruition, he wins.

The most difficult part of creating the perfect villain is to plan his brilliant plan. He is a genius... and showing it requires the intelligence of the storyteller. That is a problem if the storyteller is not actually smart.

The ultimate villain is wasted unless against the ultimate hero... and vice versa. Each can thrive without the other but never at their best. They are the perfect match.

The hero does not outwit the villain. On the contrary, he is tricked. He is manipulated into serving the very agenda he is trying to thwart.

The ultimate hero is someone beyond the sum of his parts. He is stronger than his superhuman strength. He is the personification of an ideal. He is the very thing he fights for.

The struggle of good against evil is spiritual. Though fought physically, it is beyond the physics.

The struggles in reality are worldly more often than not. The propaganda claims good against evil... but insincerely.

Our best fiction is the ideal, not the reality. It is our spiritual yearning for the triumph of good against evil. The ultimate hero represents goodness, even if as an antihero. The ultimate villain represents evil, even if sympathetic.

MORAL SUPERIORITY!

The FOOT SOLDIERS OF VILLAINY are an archetype with the very specific role of establishing a standard of ordinary by which the HERO is measured. He proves how extraordinary he is in proportion to how many of them he can outmatch till overwhelmed. The excellence of the actual villain becomes obvious when unlike the nameless baddies, he proves formidable, one way or another.

In the ultimate BOSS FIGHT, the VILLAIN is about to win when the HERO defeats him. This is whether the fight is combat or otherwise. The excellence of the hero proves not good enough. His actual GOODNESS is the decisive factor. The very thing he fights for prevails.

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Immersive Storytelling

I am reading a novel I wrote two years ago. I have found twelve typos so far. I shall correct them before posting the book on Amazon.

I thoroughly edit my work... yet there are always mistakes I miss: typos, grammatical errors or continuity errors. The story is what it is despite these imperfections.

The quality of fiction is its immersion. The significance of each aspect is this one thing. A reader knows the story is fake yet it feels real.

The novel I am reading is a survival horror story with a dreamlike setting. The problems writing it were weird physics and impossible odds. I had to make these unbelievable things believable.

The protagonists are little girls. The antagonists are spooks, witches and monsters. The girls must survive long enough for their story to be a novel.

The novel is The Wayward School for Girls. It is immersive.

The characters are believable as real people. Though they have magical or psychic powers, they talk like we do. They act like we do. They use their powers as we would if we had such powers.

The setting is weird... but consistent. Readers learn the strange the physics. They understand the cause and effect. The story never cheats... so what happens is accepted.

IMMERSION!

1. Make the characters speak and act as if people living their lives rather than as plot devices for telling the story.

2. Establish the rules of the reality and never break them

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President Saul

Donald John Trump ventured into politics hoping to drain the Swamp and save America. He meant to make the country better for its actual people. Though born to privilege, he did care about the common folk.

Alas...

He won the first election because he was clever. He won the second... but it was stolen from him. Clever was not enough now that the Deep State was ready for him.

Trump spoke with his children before doing what he did. They agreed that he should take the risk.

Alas...

Trump's children were born to privilege but were becoming pariah among the privileged. Trump survived a murder attempt. He feared for his children. Not only could they lose everything... but they could lose EVERYTHING.

Trump was defeated and alone after the second election was stolen from him. He was confused. He was afraid, not for himself but for his children. He was angry at the common folk for not rising up in his defense. The public he fought for was always complaining about the very things he did for them.

Trump turned against us.

Donald J. Trump mastered the Art of the Deal. We, the People are powerless, so his covenant with us is likewise. He made deals with the powerful. He aligned with Swamp creatures to win the third election.

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

--Jesus

Donald John Trump has more in common with the globalists than he does with us. They inhabit the world he lives in. We do not. They are his friends and family. We are strangers. We are the peasants and they are the lords and ladies.

Trump is ordained by God to be our President. Saul was ordained by God to be King of Israel.

"I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now."

--Jesus

God is evil. He loves the world... but love is selfish. He is righteous... but might makes right. The failings of Trump are those of his Father in heaven.

You are made in the image and likeness of God. You are evil accordingly. Your faith and obedience are irrelevant on Judgment Day. Your fate is decided by whether you were compassionate or not. Your sincerity is tested. Rob one man to pay another and your supposed grace shall be the death of you. Give from your own pocket or not at all.

God is aware of his own failings. He sent Jesus to make right what he did wrong... or rather to make good what is otherwise evil. Our reality is the work still in progress.

Pack Rats of the Inside

I read the novel Pack Rats of the Inside by Buddy Tippet. It is surreal survival-horror as a story about human nature... though the humans are anthropomorphic rats.

The misadventures begin in the House, a place of safety where everything needed is strangely provided. The Inside is the world outside the house... and cannot be seen through the windows.

The Pack Rats imagine was is beyond their home. They have story groups that share ideas. They discuss which door to use should they ever venture out.

To leave the House is to never come back. The residents violently keep you out: The Inside is outside and never to be let in. Curiosity gets the best of everyone, sooner or later, and they venture out into the unknown.

The Inside is strange and monsters lurk. Five bosses take perverted interest in Pack Rats... and ravish them in impossible ways. Doom is a fate worse than death since no one dies. Everything is sexual.

What I loved most about the novel was that it is like a nightmare of many dreamers. The protagonists are probably doomed... and I read with grim anticipation. The ending is a big surprise... but makes perfect sense.

Pack Rats of the Inside is meaningful. Its strangeness is clearly about what is normal... and makes sense accordingly. The evil is that of everyone. The monsters are as monstrous as everyone else.. and there is a reason why. The universe is cynical... but not really. Our choices do matter. Ultimately, we decide our own fate. It can be for the better.

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