When you start with a badly flawed character, the arc will be all about correcting that flaw—about your character growing into a better person, the kind of mythic hero archetype he was “meant to be” but couldn’t become until this adventure—the events of your plot—pushed him to change himself for the better.

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The antagonist is the person who is most heavily invested in achieving the same external goal.

The inciting event is almost always closely tied to your character’s external goal.

Showing the reader a clear view of flaw or theme right up front, in the first few pages of your book, sets a strong subconscious hook.

Still others found that it sapped their enthusiasm for the book—once they knew all the particulars of the plot, they lost interest in actually writing it.

In the overall story, your character has his external goal. In this chapter, he has a more immediate, less motivating, but still important goal. He believes (and maybe he’s right) that by achieving his in-chapter goal, he’ll get one step closer to achieving his external goal. In each scene within each chapter, he has an even more immediate, but

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The very best yardstick for determining a main character is the presence of a serious flaw. Does this character have an inner problem that’s impacting his life or the lives of the people he loves? Then he’s in need of a hero’s journey: let’s give him an outline!