How to Write Conflict

CONFLICT: The Stages of INTERNAL CONFLICT

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For those interested, Morgan Hawke has a new writing article on her blog - The Stages of INTERNAL CONFLICTWriting INTERNAL CONFLICT ~ On Paper!The Chronological Order of INTERNAL CONFLIC...

Conflict: What it is and what it isn't.

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Conflict is very important in a romance novel -- and really in any kind of a novel at all. What would the story of Romeo and Juliet be without the family feud? How good would Gone w...

Conflict

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ALL THE STRUGGLES YOUR CHARACTERS GO THROUGH Think of conflict as fuel for your story. Without conflict, there would be no action; no physical or emotional obstacles which must be overco...

Conflict Test

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1. Does one of the characters have to change in order for the conflict to be resolved? _____ Yes, Score 1 _____ No, Score 0 _____ Both characters change, Score 2 2. Can conflict be resolved wit...

Conflict! Or How To Keep Them Turning Pages

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By Marg McAlister Some writers are just too kind. They hate to put their characters under any kind of pressure. They hate to see them losing, or struggling to survive. That's q...

CONFLICT: Writing Tips on Conflict For Authors from Lionhearted Books

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Out Of Your Head By Deborah S. Rossman and Mary Ann Heathman Concentrate On Conflict | Creating Characters | Guidelines "Crazy title, isn't it? Impossible, too. In the real wor...

CONFLICT: Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense

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By Marg McAlister "Dan stood on the wet paving, his arms limp by his side, his jaw hanging in horror, as he peered through a crack in the curtains. Before him a man crept towards the figure ...

Conflict in Fiction

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By Tina Morgan Inserting conflict into your fiction is not quite as simple as inserting a fist-fight into the storyline. Conflict in fiction can be as diverse and as individual as you are. I...

CONFLICT: Write Novel's First Line To Guarantee Sales

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By Martha Tucker Start your writing with conflict if you want to guarantee sales, grab anagent or publisher, get paid a big advance. Your protagonist wants something and your antagonis...

Conflict And Motivation

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The Building Blocks of a Strong Plot By Pat Collinge In building your characters, you need to develop heros and heroines who are strongly defined, who have a past, a present, and a futu...

Conflict Is The Essence Of Drama

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By Peder Hill Conflict is the essence of drama. Got none? Then you got none. It's the primary ingredient that weaves together all the other elements of a novel. You a Seinf...

CONFLICT: Facing Up To Conflict

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By Chris Lee Ramsden In Chuck Palahniuk's ‘Fight Club', Tyler Durden gives his followers a special task to fulfill before they meet again: to pick a fight with someone in ...

Conflict in Romance

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By Andrea Kane Visitors who have spent any time at all at All About Romance know that one of my pet peeves about romance is the "I hate you, now let's hit the sack" scenario so man...

CONFLICT: Concentrate On Conflict

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By Deborah S. Rossman The development of conflict is perhaps the single most difficult task of the writer. It is also the most important. Action in a story is defined by charact...

Conflict 2

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Conflict is the primary problem or dilemma in a story. There are three kinds, commonly called man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self. In man vs. man, the conflict is between ...

CONFLICT: Make Conflict the Backbone of Your Story

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By Mervyn Love Most types of story, whether short stories or novels, absolutely need that vital ingredient: the conflict. Preferably more than one. You may well have your characters all ...

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