Aim

Your hero must have an aim to achieve. And this aim must be clear. It can be to find a lost object, save someone, have a child or seduce a woman.

Once the hero has achieved this aim, your story will be over.

Example Christopher loves all sliding sports. Friends invite him to join them one evening to rollerblade across the city. Christopher accepts, but before he can meet up with them, he has to either get his blades back from his ex-girlfriend’s house where he forgot them, or find another pair (he doesn’t know how or where yet) then get to the meeting point on time.

EXERCISE 15 Define your character’s aim.

If it is an object to retrieve, describe the object. If it is a mission to carry out, you must know what the hero has to do to fulfill this mission. If the character wants to seduce a woman, will he approach her as a close friend, with straightforward desire or passion, or will he combine all three? Make us feel it.

HELP Don’t be mistaken. The final aim is the precise thing you want to do, find, buy, kill, finish…