Questions to Ask About the Normal World 1. What setting will open your story? 2. How will this setting change at the First Plot Point? 3. How can you contrast the Normal World with the “adventure world” to follow? 4. How does the Normal World dramatize or symbolize your character’s enslavement to the Lie? 5. How is the Normal World causing or empowering the Lie? 6. Why is your character in the Normal World? 7. If your character doesn’t want to leave the Normal World, what is helping him mask the discomfort caused by his Lie? 8. If your character wants to leave, what’s stopping
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