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The One You Love To Hate
By Scott Lindsay
Many of the best stories in fiction have both an antagonist and a protagonist.
The protagonist is the main character or hero that we cheer on and hope conquers all.
The antagonist is the story’s villain. The best bad guys are the ones we love to hate. We don’t need to know why they are bad, we don’t need a play by play of the choices they made early in life, we simply recognize they are bad and we don’t want them to win.
A story can operate without an antagonist; however the use of an antagonist is the best way to demonstrate conflict within a storyline.
Conflict in a well executed work of fiction provides the friction that keep readers tuned in. In most cases the antagonist reigns supreme through the majority of storyline. The reader wants the forces of good to triumph, yet the villain remains in charge of the bulk of events that thread through your tale.
This combination of good versus evil creates suspense and causes your reader to wonder how exactly the protagonist will gain an advantage.
One of the primary benefits fictional conflict is the reader is often forced to consider how they might respond against such odds and in similar circumstances. In
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a best case scenario the story assists the reader in learning more about themselves. Conflict can also be used to disrupt a normally predictable plot. By presenting conflict that is, in many ways, worse than the previous conflict you can instill a greater desire for evil to be defeated while keeping the reader guessing where the story may be headed next. Ultimately the story must provide resolution. For the fiction writer of faith this resolution process often provides the simple message that good will triumph over evil although other threads of faith will likely work their way through your text – sometimes without you being consciously aware of their presence. If you allow the antagonist to loose the struggle too early in your story it becomes anti-climactic and the fire in the story is reduced to an ember that may leave your audience cold. The use of a villain (may not be a human, could be an animal, ideal, political agenda, etc.) goes a long way in conveying a story with elements that emotionally involve your reader. Article Directory: http://www.articlecube.com Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of FaithWriters (www.faithwriters.com) and many other web projects. FaithWriters has grown to become one of the largest online destinations for Christian writers. Please visit the website at: www.faithwriters.com
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Legislature kills measure to help business navigate regulations
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/news/MaxTylerLegisWeb*100.jpg?v=1'>A House committee killed a bill Wednesday that would have established a ?navigator? at each state department to help businesses understand the regulatory requirements they must comply with in order to operate in Colorado.
State Rep. Max Tyler, D-Golden, said he got the idea for House Bill 1025 from the ?pits and peeves? process that the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) conducted last year to discover regulations that business leaders felt were hindering their operations...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Capitol Business: Horse tracks roll the dice on video lottery measure
Video lottery terminals (VLTs) placed at horse tracks could generate nearly $50 million a year in tax revenues for Colorado community colleges, college scholarships and school construction, according to proponents of a bill introduced in the Legislature.
House Bill 1280, sponsored by Republican Reps. Don Coram of Montrose and Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling and introduced late Tuesday, would allow VLTs, which are similar to slot machines but are operated by the Colorado Lottery, at three tracks ? one on the Front Range, one near Pueblo and one on the Western Slope...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Profit slips at TW Telecom despite revenue rise
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The Douglas County-based business telecom on Wednesday reported earning $16.4 million, or 11 cents a share, on fourth-quarter revenue of $351.5 million.
That?s a 6 percent drop in profits compared to the $17.5 million profit, or 11 cents per share, on $324.8 million in fourth-quarter revenue it posted in 2010.
The company?s fourth-quarter revenue increase beat analyst expectations.
For the full year of 2011, TW Telecom (Nasdaq: TWTC) earned $57...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Colorado stocks: Level 3 up 9%; Western Union down 10%
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/news/WallStreetFinancialIllustrationWeb*100.jpg?v=1'>The Dow and Nasdaq again edged upward Wednesday. In Colorado, Level 3 and UQM led actively traded gainers.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the trading day at 12,883.95, up 5.75 points (0.04 percent).
The S&P 500 closed at 1,349.96, up 2.91 points (0.22 percent).
The Nasdaq Composite finished at 2,915.86, up 11.78 points (0.41 percent).
Among actively traded Colorado-based stocks, Level 3 Communications Inc. (LVLT) led the day?s gainers percentagewise, up 8.78 percent ($1.72) to close at $21...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Colorado lawmakers push for film production funds
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/news/MovieFilmStockWeb*100.jpg?v=1'>A bipartisan group of legislators introduced a bill Wednesday to increase incentives for film production in Colorado, pushing forward a proposal that previously had run into opposition by some members of the Joint Budget Committee.
House Bill 1286, sponsored by Rep. Tom Massey, R-Poncha Springs, and House Minority Leader Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, would dedicate $3 million to the Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media to use for tax breaks and for guaranteed loans to production companies...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Frontier Airlines passenger count down 3.3% in January
<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/FrontierJetsCar*100.jpg?v=1'>Frontier Airlines? passenger total slipped 3.3 percent in January from the same month a year earlier, the first year-over-year decline in monthly passengers for the Denver-hubbed carrier in seven months.
Frontier counted 994,576 passengers in January, down from 1,028,423 in January 2011.
That follows year-over-year increases of 4.2 percent in December, 5.3 percent in November, 1.9 percent in October, 4.5 percent in September, 3.8 percent in August and 2.2 percent in July.
Frontier is the No...<div class="feedflare">
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