In Lesson 2 we invented more of our story, then focused on creating the criminal underworld through which our protagonist rampages. Here we’ll amplify a central villain while we work to create a ferocious but deeply flawed ally for our protagonist. We’ll study Dilemma more deeply and weave it together with Reverse Cause and Effect to make the core of our story dramatic as we build it. We’re still at the very beginning of inventing our story and we focus on inventing several key characters, the false antagonist, and an ally for our protagonist.
HINT FOR NAVIGATING THIS COURSE: In Topic 3.3 of this lesson I give you an exercise that I call Think It Through. I give you a paragraph to read and tell you to think about it and then to write something about it. There is no right answer, and you can’t get it wrong. The point of it is to make you tackle something that you’re not necessarily ready for. Your job it to think it through. Turn it over in your mind, wrestle with what you think it means, and then write about it for five minutes and upload it. In Lesson 3, the topics that have assignments or exercises are 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7.