The Secret to Creating Conflict

We often need to show spectacular events in order to cause a conflict. For example, car chase, boyfriend's argument, threat of boxing, nuclear explosion and so on. Or we think that conflict is a kind of internal pain, depression, craving, pain

But the truth is that if events and emotions are the only factors of our story, we have a pretty boring story.

In good talks, conflict has nothing to do with spectacular events or painful emotions. Good confrontation is about value

When listening to the value of words in this context, you may think about "family values," in other words, ethics. Morality is essential for telling stories, but morality is not what I call value.

Let's simplify. Something worthy of your gratitude, what you want. If I value something, that means what I think is good.

For example, Elizabeth Bennett, a heroine from pride and prejudice, values ​​sincerity, humility, wisdom, kindness, and her family (did I miss it?). Her conflict with Mr. Darcy is based on these values. She said he thinks he is dishonest, proud, rude, and the worst, he said, "I have destroyed the happiness of my most beloved sister."

You do not need a villain to make a confrontation. Most collisions occur between the positive values ​​of two collisions

In our "arrogance and prejudice" example, it is the value of marriage and love that is hidden above the whole story. Mrs Bennett wants all the daughters to marry. My daughter wants to get married, but I get married only when I'm in love ... It is best to fall in love with the rich (another value of the story)

Marriage, love, wealth is a plus value. They are the values ​​most of us agree with! In "pride and prejudice" you can see the role of trying to achieve all the values ​​contradictory to good, failing and finally succeeding.

All of Bennet's daughters value love, but what does love mean? Is it counted when your emotional subject is not respected? Is foolish passion still in love? What if you like knowledge and books rather than people? What if you marry easily and eventually fall in love with your lifestyle instead of your spouse? Are you okay? All of these are conflicts that arise in a single value of love.

In your story there may not be necessity for the rogues to be in conflict, but it is always fun to have conflict. A villain is a character with a value opposite to your hero.

For example, Batman respects justice and order. Valuable crime and chaotic clown. Frodo respects his friends and Charles' peace. Sauron pays attention to power at the expense of relationship and beauty.

Find the value of your hero to make a perfect villain. Next, change these values ​​to some scary form and set the letters to be loose to each other.

Write a short scene that shows the value of your character. Next, test the value with another positive value or test the value with a negative value.

Please write for 15 minutes. Please post your exercise in the comments when you are done. If you post, be sure to comment on some of the other author's customs.

I will begin by creating a role modeling my personality. Then use your emotions, your strengths, weaknesses, fears, conflicts, secrets, habits and traits to revive your personality. You have a deep understanding of your background stories, minor doubts about doubts about your personality, secret obsession, and the heel of his or her Achilles. Because you are this, you know what to do. Once you master yourself or some of your own clones, you can turn your character into a superpower by robbing your best friend, brothers and sisters, parents, and people who are familiar with you. Remember this sentence, "Please be careful, will you reach my novel?" I am convinced that this is the reason why someone wrote this warning.

In the war environment there are many examples of ways to cause role conflicts. In The Kite Runner there are major contradictions between characters, but the settings themselves are often inconsistent with them. In the early days of the book, Amir and his father had to escape from Afghanistan. When Amir returned to Afghanistan, it was still at war and brought confrontation and danger to Amir and Sorab. Anne Frank: The girl's diary in Europe during the Second World War, the tension between the characters and the danger to them are the result of this special environment.