StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz

StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz

Creating Conflict

FUNDAMENTALS OF CONFLICT

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Junot Díaz
May 22, 2024
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In our storycrafting discussions we’ve focused a lot on Character — how they might be made deeper, more convincing, more compelling — which is only right, considering how much work Character perform in stories — and while I will have more to say about Character later on, let us now turn to the next crucial component in our fiction formula1: Conflict. 

When speaking of fiction’s standard mechanics, Conflict is one of the Three

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