I attended the Live the Universe and Everything symposium. These are notes from one of the panels. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• You need to learn about all the types of protagonists before you choose which one you want to use in your manuscript.
• What is a protagonist?
• It is your hero, a boy or girl or team. It is the main character of your story. If you’re doing a team each member needs to be distinct and well developed. Each needs to have a loss to gain and have the most to lose.
• The protagonist is the one who moves the story forward. The main character everything revolves around them. They are the most important to the story.
• Usually the protagonist and the main character of the same person.
• The protagonist is the person that must accomplish the goal.
• Many feel that in fact, this is the one that drives the story question. What are the defining traits between protagonists and antagonists? Traditionally the antagonist is often the person who is preventing the protagonist from achieving their goal.
• How taking the reader-centered on the goals of the protagonist?
• How do you keep the protagonist as the number one character?
• Have the protagonists have various traits that many people can relate to. The reader needs to step into the shoes of the protagonists and like them. If you have them blank characters and to easy-going, they might be boring.
• Like to give characters layers like an onion on all core. One way to give the protagonist death is a say one thing but they may be thinking another. For example, they might be challenged to a duel, so they boast that the person challenging them does not have a chance.  but in their mind the word of they’ll be being up and lose it lose a position.
• Zero from the game Hades is a blank slate and is an intriguing character.
• We put out characters in interesting and dangerous situations that they have to get out of.
• Give your character’s laws. Broken characters are getting more popular. Such as Batman.
• You also need something that makes the character likable. If a best friend is supporting a character that seems unlikable, let the reader see why the sidekick character supports them.