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Originally Posted by gmw
I am wondering if your idea is waiting for another before it is ready. Various writers speak of not being able to create a story until two or more ideas intersect - and it is at that intersection that the story takes off. You have your dastardly deed, but to make the story interesting you may need one or other (or both) of your protagonists to have some particular peculiarity, or be experiencing some difficulty, or maybe that it's some external situation (event or coincidence of events) that bring the spark that a story needs.
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Good point. You not only need the protagonist to be involved, but to have a good reason for them to become involved. For them to just become involved for no reason and be just the right person to stop the antagonist's evil plans sounds artificial to me. Miss Marple is a good example. She isn't just an older woman who has seen a lot and happens to have the solution to the murder in that lifetime of experience. She is either going somewhere and encounters the situation or is a guest of the cousin of her best girlhood friend or some other person so that she has a reason for being there that makes sense.