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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Mastermind: Criminal Geniuses, Schemers, and Brilliant Villains

The Mastermind: Criminal Geniuses, Schemers, and Brilliant Villains

Blake, Imogen

Paperback

Series: Writing Wicked, Book 4

ISBN13: 9798255566655
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.27 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Your mastermind villain is supposed to be the smartest person in the room. So why does the reader not believe it?
Most writers tell us the villain is brilliant. They give them a reputation, a monologue, a complicated plan. But when the character actually appears on the page, the intelligence is asserted, not demonstrated - and the reader can feel the difference.

The Mastermind shows you how to demonstrate intelligence without telling the reader it exists. How to build plans that strain under their own brilliance. How to write manipulation scenes, worthy opponents, and relationships that expose the villain's humanity. How to design the specific flaw that makes your genius beatable - not through luck or coincidence, but through the logic of the character you built. With examples drawn from Walter White, Amy Dunne, Hannibal Lecter, and Gus Fring, every technique is grounded in characters that work and the specific reasons they work.

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