In your workbook, answer the following questions about your protagonist:
- What is my protagonist’s character archetype?
- How do other characters see my protagonist?
- Who is my protagonist?
- Write one paragraph. Include details of personality, occupation, relationships, backstory, current situation.
- What is my protagonist’s most firmly held belief?
- Include details about why your protagonist has such a firm belief in this truth?
- What is my protagonist’s misbelief?
- Include details about how your protagonist came to believe this lie?
- What is my protagonist’s most prominent positive trait?
- How does this present as strengths in my protagonist?
- How does this present as flaws in my protagonist?
- What is my protagonist’s most prominent negative trait?
- How does this present as strengths in my protagonist?
- How does this present as flaws in my protagonist?
- What is my protagonist’s external GMC?
- What does my protagonist want (external goal)?
- Why does my protagonist want it?
- What’s standing in my protagonist’s way?
- What is my protagonist’s internal GMC?
- What does my protagonist want (internal goal)?
- Why does my protagonist want it?
- What’s standing in my protagonist’s way?
- What will my protagonist’s character development look like?
- Who is my protagonist at the beginning of the story?
- What must my protagonist learn?
- How will my protagonist change/grow as a person?
- Who will my protagonist be at the end of the story?