

This will help you make more believable characters and keep you from getting character details wrong. It's a good idea to develop a character profile for every single character. To further develop your protagonist, use other character archetypes like the villain, the protagonist’s opposite, or the fool, a sidekick character that reveals the protagonist’s softer side. As Victor Frankl said, “A human being is a deciding being.” Your protagonist must make a decision to get themselves into whatever mess they get into in your story, and likewise, their character arc must come to a crisis point and they must decide to get themselves out of the mess.

The essential ingredient for every protagonist is that they must make decisions.

Stories are about protagonists, and if you don’t have a good protagonist, you won’t have a good story.
