: Re: How to make a conflict seem more complex, despite the story itself being rather one-sided? So, one of my story ideas involved werewolves. In the setting, they were a minority, much like most

@Murray831

G.K. Chesterton said:


A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.


Two things are apparent from your question:


You want to avoid writing a "bad" novel with a one-sided plot and two-dimensional villains.
You, the author, don't particularly like, understand, nor empathize with your villains, the werewolf hunters.


Therefore, if you want to improve the plot, you must improve your relationship with the unsavory characters in your novel. Why do they hate werewolves so much? I suspect that their hatred, like much bigotry, is based in fear. Fear that the "others" will take over and ruin life for the "good people". "There goes the neighborhood," and all that. If you can connect with that fear, you can humanize them, even if you don't support their morals, actions, or decisions.

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