Your Protagonist. You’ve figured out what your protagonist wants, but consider also the flipside:
All the answers to these questions are great seeds for scenes and will help you drive up the conflict and tension in your story.
Action Plan: Brainstorm a list of things your character strongly dislikes or doesn’t want to have happen. These can be people, places, things, or even abstract ideas. These should help you design the obstacles the protagonist faces during their pursuit of their goal. The threat of these things happening—or the fact that they do happen—can be dramatized into scenes in which your protagonist is forced to react. Write down your answers to the above questions as well; these will begin to form a potential emotional development arc for your protagonist.