Writing Great Villains: Why They Shouldn't Be Sympathetic
Writing great villains is about striking a balance between charming and evil, so we love them but also love to see them lose.

Vaso lives in Tbilisi. He has been happily married for more than thirty years and has two adult children. Life goes on as usual until, on New Year's Eve, his family receives a letter from the past from a stranger, Margarita. In which it is written that in Russia, in Krasnoyarsk, he has an illegitimate daughter. The wife and children create a real drama about this and forcibly send Vaso to Russia to look for an "abandoned child."
Writing great villains is about striking a balance between charming and evil, so we love them but also love to see them lose.
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