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Once you’ve come up with a list of meaningful plot points that should happen in your story, the Acts structure (generally three, but could be strengthened by turning it into five) is a proven method to organize those plot points in a way that makes the story more cohesive, and usually building up in tension.

The following questions should allow you to develop your characters.

• See which are the major flaws of each major character. How do they explore the unifying theme? If any of them don’t, either change it or try to delete that character.
• How is the antagonist the person who is most heavily invested in achieving the same external goal?
• How is something a character believes challenged, so he might change his views, opinions, attitudes, behavior, or core beliefs? Particularly figure out a way for this to happen to the protagonist.
• Is there an “arc” to each primary character’s story? In other words, do your antagonist, sidekick, and love interest all possess clear goals, and are those desires built up and resolved by the end?
• Who is on your protagonist’s side? Create a moment in which that care, understanding and support are shown. How close to the opening of your novel can you place this moment?
• Do any of your characters “peter out” or fade away, never to be heard from again? This is a critical error to flag and fix.
• How are your protagonist’s flaws a barrier to them achieving their goals? Conversely, make them have to overcome their flaws to achieve certain things.
• Brainstorm how your characters could surprise you, and therefore surprise the audience too.
• How does your protagonist summon his inner hero to achieve the goal?
• How do the events in the plot force the protagonist to make a specific really hard internal change?
• How does the story’s structure shove the protagonist as far out of his comfort zone as possible, the better for him to ultimately realize that it wasn’t nearly as comfortable, or as safe, as he’d thought?
• Does your protagonist have a moment of humanity early on?
• How is your protagonist defined by ongoing actions and attitudes, not by backstory?
• Is the hero’s primary motivation for tackling this challenge strong, simple, and revealed early on?
• Detail the ways the opponent attacks the hero. Try to devise a detailed plan for the opponent with as many hidden attacks as possible.
• How could the antagonist’s flaw contribute to his defeat?
• How have you made the reader truly believe and feel that your antagonist is a nasty force to be reckoned with?
• For each interpersonal encounter in the story, how is each major character altered somehow?
• Have a real feeling for their theory of control. This is their brain’s overarching strategy for getting what they want out of the human world.
• What do they want most of all in the world? What do they imagine will make them happy forever?