OctoPrep 2025

Complications

Assignment #23

"Oct. 23 - "Complications:"

"Plot: Complications"

Complications. Identify additional things that could go wrong for your protagonist. You are not required to resolve any problems yet, just create them. Remember: The more hardships your main character faces, the more readers will cheer them on, and the more engaged and invested the reader will be in your story. Brainstorm a list of problems you could throw at your protagonist(s) throughout the story, using ""What If,"" mind mapping (see the resources at the bottom of the calendar), freestyle writing, or any other form of brainstorming you prefer.

Hint: Other characters are a great source of realistic strife, since characters often are driven by conflicting motivations.


Muriel Iyana finds out that she has Orophobia when the Vala mountains come into range.

A night that they've stopped, they hang out at a bar that night and get drunk. Find out that Gideon isn't exactly as he says.

Adelaide is taken during the night. The crew must find her.

Adelaide's confidence takes a nose dive, afraid of disappointing her parents, the world, her companions.

The night before they're to make it to River Passea, Adelaide has a panic attack.