THE LEGENDARY CHARACTER

A gender-neutral term for your story’s main point-of-view character(s).

Why legendary? Well, all stories are the legend of someone whether they’re a prince rescuing a dragon from a horde of torch-wielding villagers or a gas station clerk in the middle of Nowheresville, USA.

Because if there wasn’t something noteworthy and interesting about them you wouldn’t bother to tell a whole book’s worth of story about them, now would you?

So who’s going to star in your story? Are they…

• A clerk at a small-town antique store who designs the window displays?
• A brave warrior returning home for the local feast day?
• A captain of starfarers who is ready for adventure?

You don’t need to figure it all out

You don’t have to decide everything about your Legendary Character right this moment. Really it’s okay to start your story without having their entire backstory fleshed out.

All you really need is a stick figure of an idea and a placeholder name.

I recommend using the Random Name function on  Behind the Name  for this.

So now you have the first element of your story, Story Quester, but what will we add tomorrow? You’ll just have to open your inbox 📥 to find out!

Your cohort in storytelling,

Kat Vancil

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