What is your subject?

The answer is simple. Your subject is your hero and the story he/she will experience.

Your hero and story are one. Your hero must be cut out for the adventure, and the adventure made to measure for the hero.

Exercise 2

Write a short summary of your story, including the end.

Help

Help yourself by making a list of your main characters.

Each world has its figures. A hold-up immediately calls to mind gangsters, mafiosi, safe experts, a dynamite specialist, policemen, inspectors, a judge and femme fatale…

Say “Western”, and we immediately imagine a lonesome cowboy, a sheriff and saloon girls, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Say “Family comedy”, and the figures of father, mother, children, friends and neighbors all come to mind.

You must play with these figures, re-invent them or maybe even use some of them in an unexpected way. But whatever you do, don’t dispense with them. Each genre has compulsory figures that you must use, according to the type of story you have chosen to tell.