{"id":1214,"date":"2016-09-06T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2016-09-06T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T17:51:14","slug":"writing-a-saul-to-paul-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/writing-a-saul-to-paul-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a Saul to Paul Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A writer recently asked:<\/p>\n<p>I am writing a Saul-to-Paul story whereby my protagonist begins the story with one goal in mind (i.e., persecution of a particular people on behalf of a dictator), but at some point through the story, he is persuaded to switch sides and overthrow the dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Should my storyform reflect my protagonist\u2019s initial goal or his later goal?<\/p>\n<p>My reply:<\/p>\n<p>It is important to separate the Main Character\u2019s journey of growth from the protagonist\u2019s journey to achieve a goal, even if a single character is both Main Character and Protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>What changes in a Saul to Paul story is the Main Character\u2019s attitude as to what is right and what is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the goal might be to do what is right, and his idea of \u201cright\u201d is what changes, but his goal to do \u201cright\u201d does not.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie<br \/>\nStorymind.com<\/p>\n<p id=\"obi_random_banners_posts\" class=\"obi_random_banners_posts\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Man-Made-First-Hour-Event-ebook\/dp\/B09WYXMFBV\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-27-3.58.58-PM.png\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer recently asked: I am writing a Saul-to-Paul story whereby my protagonist begins the story with one goal in mind (i.e., persecution of a particular people on behalf of a dictator), but at some point through the story, he is persuaded to switch sides and overthrow the dictator. Should my storyform reflect my protagonist\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36xpN-jA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}