OctoPrep 2025

Plot: Premise Revision

Assignment #31

Oct. 31: - Plot: Premise Revision

Now that you have spent a month planning your novel, revise your initial premise. Identify the following:
(1) Setting(s). Where does your story take place?
(2) Protagonist(s). Who is(are) your main character(s)?
         (2b) Flaw(s). What is(are) the protagonist's major flaw(s)?
         (2c) Goal(s). What does(d) the protagonist(s) want (or want to avoid)?
(3) Conflict(s). What's keeping them from their goal(s)?
(4) Antagonist(s). Who or what is creating the conflict(s)?
(5) Resolution. How does it all turn out in the end?
(6) Theme: What is the theme or moral of the story?
(7) Outline: Update your outline as needed.


Setting: Shimmerwood > Castle, Lady Althena's House, Beresboia Forest, Bearglen, Holombsia, Edgespell, Vala Range > River Passea

Protagonists: Adelaide de Caelkirk, Dane Ravizac
         Flaws: Adelaide: Feeling overconfident, covering for insecurities about failing and being a disappointment. Her singular focus on her mission and not being socially confident, causes her to hesitate in making decisions.

Dane: Untrusting, stubborn, stuck in his ways, which causes him to struggle in adapting to deal with people who deal with things differently than him.

         Goals: Adelaide: Saving the world.

Dane: Also saving the world, though not realizing that it is his powers that are what is needed. Though, he needs Adelaide to do it.

Conflicts: They begin to intertwine to where the conflict becomes bigger than they realized. That the big bad they're expected to confront, is really only a distraction, as is the one they believe to be after that. Though they are pieces of the puzzle that makes them realize that they were testers, feelers, of the larger issue. Which is that another realm, that runs parallel to Klesosia or Earth, but that has ruined their own and wants to take Klesosia for it's own.

Antagonists: Amahle (also Mahaela)

Resolution: The resolution to the main story will continue in the next books. The resolution in this book is that Adelaide isn't the Chosen.

Theme: The overall theme, is the rebirth theme. While it can apply to Adelaide, it definitely applies to Rowan. I think the journey definitely helps with the path to rebirth, but I think the choices that she makes, especially towards the end, makes Rowan become a different person. She starts with a lot of self doubts about herself, both physically and mentally. She's trying to start to change, when she's tossed into a new world with a huge expectation of her. She's afraid of what is expected of her, because she doesn't think she's able to do it. By the end, because of the choices she makes, the battles she overcomes, she becomes a lot more confident in herself, in her decisions, becomes almost a leader to those who are with her on her journey. She is even willing to sacrifice herself (a misunderstanding of something she feels will happen by the choice she makes) for the greater good, to make sure that "good" wins.