But if you plan to be in the staying alive business for the long haul, you've got to develop a sweet, helpless, willing-to-be-humble, gracefully losing side.
that was Michelle's mistake.
She invested all her personality chips in force/control/manipulate
few saving graces. Not enough to balance the appearance of the MeMonster/Monstrous victim/Entitled Cruella de Ville
We love a villain. That's the problem I see in a lot of writing that doesn't get published or doesn't sell--all the characters are nice and reasonable.
To write a villain you have to understand the mind of a villain and I think peeps who haven't made a personal journey to the dark side of the soul just can't picture or write a character totally free of conscience and unable, even for a brief emergency moment, to put anyone above themselves in the hierarchy of needs.
The Big Book talks of solipsism.
Narcisissim is solipsism without an escape hatch.
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