For an article by a writer who used this book, click here. The Story Within Guidebook helps you explore your own story and connect your plot directly to your characters, and vice versa. Using the exercises, you'll be working towards a more vivid and coherent plot, and vital and active characters. It's filled with interactive exercises and cogent examples.
Heroism comes from the protagonist doing something difficult.
But most important, the protagonist has to change, to stretch, has to do something that seemed impossible in the beginning of the book. This can be as world-changing as stopping a nuclear explosion, or as minor as apologizing. Heroism is in the action, but it s in the action relative to this person and this plot. What s heroic for one protagonist might be unheroic for another. The action should be heroic by the scale of what the protagonist can t manage in the beginning.