Look at it this way: your protagonist is not like an actor who’s hired to play a role in a plot that’s already been devised; rather, she’s about to walk into the next day of her life, which she believes will go according to plan—her plan, the one based on all that past experience. But it won’t. Your job as a storyteller is to make sure her expectations are not met, since that’s what we’re wired to come to story for: insight on how to handle the unexpected. Because that’s when things get really interesting. So even if the exact thing your protagonist expects to happen does indeed occur, you’d
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