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Patterns of Change--How Do You Create Strong Conflict in Your Fiction or Memoir?

Patterns of Change--How Do You Create Strong Conflict in Your Fiction or Memoir?

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Jan 10, 2014
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Most stories foster change.  Either change in the situation, in the character or narrator, or in the reader and their understanding of a topic.

Most writers know that change in story comes from conflict.  Conflict is a dilemma presented to a person and it forces action.  It makes a person realize a truth, right a wrong, change behavior or thoughts, move …

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