allenjf:

Ask questions, take notes, and outline.

1.  What does your protagonist want?
2.  What happens if your protagonist doesn’t get what he/she wants?
3.  What’s standing in his/her way?
4.  How is your protagonist different at the end of the book?
5.  Why does your reader care?

http://rockyourwriting.com/2014/01/5-questions/

Just putting this here for future reference.