I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average 'good' person can understand and get behind.
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The anti-hero walks the morally gray path and constantly flirts with redemption, and that flirtation is just a blast to write.
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.
I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.
It's always more fun to be an anti-hero. They're more interesting.
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.
It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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