May 20th, 2008
Conflict In Your Stories Is What Readers Long For
If you want your story to cut the mustard with your readers, then lace it with several helpings of that not-so-secret ingredient: conflict.
Conflict does not always imply physical disagreements leading to fisticuffs, although it certainly can be this. James Bond and Indiana Jones offer this in buckets. But the writers often bring in other kinds of conflict which may be a little more cerebral.
Conflict can be conflict of purpose, conflict of ideologies, conflict in social standing and, of course, the inner conflict where the character is torn between two courses of action which they have to wrestle with and decide upon.