The specific goal for your character is the one that you’ve developed as part of the story promise.
Download the free eBook at storypromisechecklist.com. It’s the information that’s on the back of your book that intrigues the reader about your character’s journey.
This goal must have an urgent completion time based on what the character wants to accomplish. It can be for a day, 6 months, or in a year. Forever can’t be used. Time forces your characters to move, to keep trying.
A character and his specific goal don’t change during the story; what changes is how they will accomplish it. YOU, as the character, have an internal and external goal.
Characters live in your mind. They are with you at all times.
While you are operating in the real world, day-by-day as you do things, think about how your character would do the same thing or how they would handle any situation.
Keep Writing
Angela