Conflict
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009The story…must be a conflict, and specifically, a conflict between the forces of good and evil within a single person. - Maxwell Anderson
by Al Philipson
by LuMaxArt
For a story to be interesting, there must be conflict. If your goal is to describe some utopian society filled with all sorts of technological wonders, you don’t have a story, just a boring travelogue. How interesting would Beowulf have been without Grendel, his mother, and the dragon?
Ben Bova once described “a story” as “a narrative description of a character struggling to solve a problem.”
So, what do you need to do to provide the problem or “conflict”? (more…)
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