#secondary-characters

How Supporting Characters Showcase the Protagonist

How supporting characters showcase the protagonist

All the characters are part of an interconnected web, distinguished by contrast. The contrast between characters helps define each character in four major ways: story function, archetype, themeand opposition. We constantly compare ourselves and others to everybody else. Readers do the same with fictional characters. We need context to interpret…

Subplot Purpose and Requirements

The golden Rule of Subplot: Even when the protagonist isn’t in the scene, everything that happens must clearly affect him at some point, in some way! It has a life of its own, but gets its meaning and resonance based on how it affects the main plot. Each sub-plot must have it’s own story question to resolve. The other Rules of Subplot: 1 It must (supply information to) affect the protagonist’s…