Characters shouldn’t be one dimensional, empty shells━they should have dreams and goals, they should have thoughts and feelings.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The following article is a list of “dreams” and “goals” that the characters in your story could have. It may help strengthen your character’s personality, improve your story’s plotline, or even make your central idea more unique.
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
━Pablo Picasso
| + Positive Focus | o Neutral Focus | – Negative Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Become a doctor | Create a puppet | Rob a person |
| Plant 1,000 trees | Survive in the wilderness alone | Cheat a test |
| Help the elderly and aging | Study campanology (the study of bells) | Dethrone a company head |
| Donate 95% of total net worth | Breed sharks for commercial or personal use | Experimental surgeries |
| Donate personal time | Find 10 items using a metal detector | Violent “cage fighting” |
| Foster a child, friend, family member | Learn every type of chess; including Western (International) Chess, Janggi (Korean Chess) and Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) | Complete an “evil list” instead of the common positive “bucket list” |
| Donate limbs, organs, hair | Record all thoughts for memorization or review later | Lockpicking challenges |
| Teach aristology (the science or art of dining) | Work in a food pantry | Destroy or steal someone’s belongings |
| Rescue endangered animals from commercial hunters | Gold panning | Contaminate an organic source |
| Form a club and share thoughts | Carve bones for art | Mess with someone’s psychology for personal or commerical gain |