In another counterintuitive stroke of genius, KM Weiland suggests starting your plotting with the antagonist instead of the protagonist.
Struggling to plot your book? Good things happen when you focus on figuring out how to plot your book by first examining your antagonist’s goals.
Source: How to Plot a Book: Start With the Antagonist – Helping Writers Become Authors
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