Goal-Based Plotting Method

I most often start a story with a cool premise. A concept that comes down to me out of the aether that I am extremely excited about, and a story is born. The characters, however, usually stink. When I was going into my fourth draft of #ODUM I was doing a ton of research on character arcs, story arcs, and series arcs in order to build in what I knew my story was lacking.

In doing so, I looked into so many of the same types of outlines, relatively the same story beats, just phrased or arranged ...