How Do We Translate These Wants, Needs and Desires?

When we want something, we all automatically project a series of operations that we would do in order to get that thing. This is sort of the way we, step by step, move through the world. We set ourselves these goals, and then we kind of simulate in our minds the tactics and strategies that we have to actualize those goals. The trick here is that once you start plotting that out, then you start to realize, oh, there's another dimension. A good rule of thumb is that if the protagonist gets what they wantthat you should probably not have them get what they need. And if they get what they deserve, they're probably not going to get it.