Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25947144-20150614164217/@comment-26030957-20150614194913

I don't know why that went up doubled. Weird. Anyway, I came back to say you can use your well researched history with interior monologue. Get in his head. For instance, you can have him thinking about how he hates his brother, something like, he is staring at an impaled victim and he thinks to himself, "my weakling brother would never have the strength and will to do as I have done," or have him thinking about when he himself was imprisoned and tortured. Don't beat your readers over the head with it or they'll get bored, just enough to make it realistic and bring us there. Hope this helps, looking forward to seeing what you come up with.