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Tag: Conflict and characterization

Eating Crackers in Bed — Why Relationships Fail

Relationship failures can usually be distilled to: "We don’t see things the same way." Laurie Schnebly Campbell shows us how characters drive conflict.

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Explore the Layers of Conflict in Your Story

Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes No one wants to read about a fictional nice day. Great fiction is about one thing, and one thing only . . . problems. And lots of them. Problems keep the pages turning, and the heart of a problem is conflict. Without conflict, there is no plot, which is […]

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