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Judy

Writing about the Pollyanna heroine in your story is easy. But how about diving into the personality and behavior of the office jerk, the bully who rejoices in starting each workday by putting on his rude colored glasses? Here are some ideas: 

• When your villain unlocks her office door, rather than being polite and interested in her colleagues’ achievements, show her dishing up an unhealthy serving of rudeness. Then she sits back and watches the negative behavior spread from cubicle to cubicle faster than the common cold. Give her five *****s for a bully’s success.  
• Have your villain get wind of his pending firing. Show him visiting the corner office with all the windows, where he squeals to his weakling boss and, with a little sweet-talking about his latest successful project, manages to turn the tables on his adversaries and they get the pink slips. Grrrrrrrr! 
• Show Pollyanna avoiding this guy, keeping her distance, ducking into stairwells, only to find the door automatically locks and the only one within hearing distance is the bad guy. 

• Describe the sniggers from the villain when her targets of opportunity burst into tears, shout angry epithets, or offer effusive apologies. These tactics really light up the pleasure centers in this tyrant’s twisted brain. Boing! 
• Assemble a team of compatriots and agree on a password passed quickly via email to warn of the incoming witch riding her broom. 
• Add some magic with a dash of imaginative time travel which transports the underlings to their dream job, if they can just ignore this small-minded inconvenience called the office jerk. Now that one should really rile the daylights out of any respectable villain.  

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