Hello everyone!
   Today's post is a collaboration with the lovely and talented Lizzie Sargent, who's accompanying post on how to improve your antagonist can be found right here.

Today I am going to give you five tips on how to improve the protagonist of your story:

1. Give them a goal
   This could easily be the "make it or break it" for your protagonist--if they don't have a goal, or worse, an unrealistic goal, your MC has suddenly taken a long walk off a short pier over the...