Who doesn’t love the Dark Side? Darth Vader, Cruella De Vil, Tony Soprano – everybody loves a great villain. And every story needs dramatic conflict – internal and external – to really resonate. This comprehensive, accessible book gives you tools to write the most despicable villains.

Conflict is the very heart and soul of drama, and Smith’s latest work explores character conflict and the various ways to portray it both in scripts and on the stage.

Defining the Dark Side helps you select and clarify the worldview that influences your character’s actions.

About the Author

Pamela Jaye Smith is a mythologist, author, consultant, speaker, and award-winning writer-producer-director with over 30 years in the media industry, in Hollywood and around the world. She helps storytellers of all types and in all genres enhance their projects with mythic themes, archetypes, and symbols.

Review

The Power of the Dark Side is an incredible exploration of the different dimensions of Evil. Pamela Jaye Smith demonstrates once again that she is one of the world’s experts, not only on multi- cultural mythology but also on the application of the ideas of archetype, symbol, and cognitive science. While she’s written this book with the writer in mind, her exploration of the ideas of evil will be of great value to teachers, therapists, and anyone who deals with people, education, motivation, or persuasion. For writers, it opens up a world of ideas that will help in building more complex antagonists. To have a great hero, you need a great villain. Dark Side delivers far more than you’d expect from one book.  - Rob Kall, Publisher of OpEdNews.com Founder, Storycon