Character:
• Stories should be character driven
• A character you identify with
• Who interacts in with other characters
• Who grow, change, learn something new
• Learn something surprising not what you would expect
Follow literary structure
• Start with an anecdote (Sequence of actions makes people want to know what happens next which creates tension)
• Then a moment of reflection about what sequence means
• Then start the cycle again (anecdote, reflection, anecdote, reflection. Etc.)
• Conflict (Some thing or event that brings everyone’s attitudes into the open)
• Change
• Resolution (not always necessary)