The Beauty of Writing the Unsympathetic Heroine
I am currently writing Out of the Shadows: A Witching Pen Series Prequel . While this book will deal with sexual themes (there is an incubus featuring quite heavily within the story) it is not a romance at all; it will fall under dark fantasy / paranormal fantasy / occult horror. And I am not interested in making Katherine Green a "likeable" character. I think readers will certainly resonate with her to an extent, but her attitude will always be questionable. The joy of writing the un likable character as the main character is that you can really get to the truth of who they are without worrying/caring what readers might think of her (or him) ... mostly, anyway. We are focusing on atmosphere and narrative here; we are focusing on keeping readers gripped by the story itself, without having to win aspects of their hearts through character loveability. Character truth is important, but not loveability. This is the story of a teenage daughter who is angry, hurt...
