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Creating Conflict

If we define stories as "an emplaced narrative in which a sympathetic character is forced by a disruptive conflict to make a consequential choice or to uncover a consequential insight" - this is where the Conflict advice resides

FUNDAMENTALS OF CONFLICT: THE SIX AXES

Whether we’re talking Conflicts or any other element of storytelling, broad categories work best when combined with finer instruments that help us tease…

Aug 11, 2024 • Junot Díaz

THE KEY TO CONFLICT: STAKES

The key to Conflict is to understand it not as an isolated mechanic but as a dyad. If Conflict works at all, it works in dialectic with Character.

Jul 27, 2024 • Junot Díaz

STORIES WITHOUT CONFLICT

Throughout our Conflict discussion I’ve been asked a number of times about stories without Conflict — which I understand as "stories without Conflict as…

Jul 23, 2024 • Junot Díaz

HOW TO SEPARATE CONDITION FROM CONFLICT

or CONFLICT'S GOM JABBAR

Jul 12, 2024 • Junot Díaz

CONFLICT - THE CHAOS THAT REVEALS

Just finished the ecstatic second season of Interview with the Vampire, a series I cannot recommend enough for anyone interested in excellent TV and…

Jul 2, 2024 • Junot Díaz

HOW CONFLICTS FAIL: NONFLICT

A Diagnostic Series

Jun 27, 2024 • Junot Díaz

THE CONSEQUENCE ECONOMY - OR, THE CASE OF CARRIE

If you’ve had any exposure to creative writing (or writing classes in general) you will have heard this classic advice, often repeatedly:

Jun 20, 2024 • Junot Díaz

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