How do you introduce protagonist? Is he sympathetic?
Do you demonstrate his primary traits through his actions?
Do the descriptions slow things down? Interrupt the story?
Do you show his greatest desire? Is it the same as the external plot goal? Does he think it will solve his personal problems?
Do you show his greatest Need? Does his desire conflict with this?(Will The Truth change his greatest desire to something else or will it change the means of achieving his greatest desire?)
Does he already want to change his circumstances/setting? Why doesn't he?
Do you demonstrate his belief in The Lie? Does he come to believe The Lie as a result of something that happens at the beginning of the story?
Do you show how his past caused this belief? Hint at it? Should you? (Is the backstory significant enough to motivate the protagonist through the story?)
Do you show that belief causing/could cause problems for the protagonist by creating a self-limitation, or weakness in him, or generally making him unhappy?
Do you show The Lie becoming a problem for him at the start, or in the Inciting Event or the 1st Plot Point?
Do you show that belief causing/could cause problems for others?
Do you show him defending The Lie/refusing to change?
Do you show his capacity to live by The Truth if only he believed it?
Do you show the setting supporting that belief in The Lie?
Do you highlight those parts of the setting that will change or appear to change in the protagonist's perceptions as a result of The Truth, or (if he does not return to the same setting at the end) which will contrast with the setting created by The Truth?
Do you foreshadow The Truth, how he will learn about it, it's capacity to defeat The Lie, or how it may be tied to his greatest Need?
Do you show the protagonist doing something that leads to him becoming involved in the story?
Do you show him rejecting the opportunity to get involved in the story? (Resisting change.)
Do you show him beginning to grow aware and uncomfortable with some of The Lie's effects by the end of Part 1? How does his use of The Lie begin to change?
Do you show the protagonist making a fateful decision that ultimately leads to the 1st Plot Point? How does it result from the events in Part 1?
Do you show how the events of the 1st Plot Point changes his situation? Does it change the setting or move him to another setting? Is the impact big enough? Does it "destroy his world"?
Do you show him accepting or rejecting this change? Does he consider this a good or bad thing?
Do you show him making a determined decision as a result of the 1st Plot Point? What is his new Goal? Was his prior goal replace or changed?
Do you show how The Lie will continue to cause big trouble for him in his new situation as a result of the 1st Plot Point?
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