Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Conflict

Read Jeremiah 13-15

Jeremiah 13:14 "And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them."

A story without conflict is boring. It might be pleasant to live like that, but reading about an idyllic existence gets old soon.

The plot points will need major conflict—events that force characters to make decisions and changes and to take action. It doesn’t have to involve bombs or people with guns, but it should be plot altering.

Besides the major conflicts, each scene should have minor conflicts. They need to be big enough to move the story forward, but could be as small as a person not having milk for their cereal.

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