Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Conflict

I have issues with conflict. Serious, serious issues. I hate conflict, or at least losing conflicts, and that comes out in my writing in a few serious ways.

Serious ways in which it comes out in my writing:

  1. Every. Single. One. Of my characters. Get along perfectly. All the time, every day, they are BFFs. One of them makes an off-color joke? No worries, they have the exact same sense of humor (mine). 
  2. My characters are ridiculously prepared for preposterous things that happen to them. That is bad and also not good, in that WHERE IS THE PLOT, WHERE IS THE STRUGGLE. 
  3. I cannot come up with logical solutions to conflicts. An aborted plot line ran like this: "Benny gets kidnapped, the team freaks out, Benny frees himself and calls them from a phone booth, they are relieved." Anything that involves more than one or two characters working together escapes me. 
  4. All my plots basically suck. 


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