Unlocking the Mystery: The Surprising Secret to Choosing the Perfect Protagonist
Your Lead Character
Your lead character is the person the story is focused on. Your lead character generally gets the biggest share of the air-time in the story. Your lead character is the person your reader is watching.
Your lead character is usually the protagonist of your story. Usually, but not always.
As an example, in Frederick Forsyth’s novel, The Day of the Jackal, the lead character is a ruthless assassin code-named “the Jackal.” Nobody knows his real name, but a French terrorist organization hires him to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.
