Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

Loveable and likeable characters are much harder to make believeable in writing than really hateable characters (at least for me). Perhaps that's because it's easy to identify all of the things that make us dislike a person or people and lump them all into one character that represents them all.

In The Agency Delta (read and comment online), I created one really foul character that I just loved writing about. He's the senior information technology person and he's the epitomy of the worst characteristics in IT. And I know IT. I've been in and around it for a long time.

Thanks to my brother-in-law for also recommending that, according to him, every story is just better with a "really fat guy". I'm not sure why he thinks that, but it's funny and therefore my character is a really fat IT guy named after my brother-in-law.

I just uploaded chapter 43 of The Agency Delta. This is the first chapter in which the really fat IT guy gets a major scene. It was one of my favorite chapters to write.