Conflict moves stories.
The protagonist faces the conflict, battling with it and dealing with it. Whether our focus is Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, George R.R. Martin or Dean Koontz, the swiftest action-adventure or the highest literary fiction, the protagonist battles a conflict-creator.
The antagonist creates the deepest and longest conflict, yet other characters can also be conflict-creators, even if that character is not evil. These characters offer tests for our primary character.
One such character is the Love Interest. That’s a curious addition to an episode on Enemies. I’ll explain at the end of the episode.
For now, we have the Tests that come from Active Enemies of the Protagonist.
TIMINGS
Total Run Time = 20:11
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5:16 / Defeat Writer's Block / M Stewart on the Writing Flow
5:15 / Defeat Writer's Block / Avoid These Mistakes part 2
5:14 /Defeat Writer's Block / Avoid These Mistakes
5:13 / Defeat Writer's Block / More Techniques from Gardner
5:12 / Defeat Writer's Block / How One Pro Won the Battle
5:11 / Defeat Writer's Block / Pro Writers part B
5:10 / Defeat Writer's Block / Pro Writers part A
5:09 / Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 3
5:08 /Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 2
5:07 / Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 1
5:06 / Defeat Writer's Block / Introduction
5:05 / Plot 7, part B / Discovering Plot
5:04 / Plot 7 part a / Discovering Plot
5:03 / An Asian Plotting Method / Discovering Plot
5:02 / Stages 11 & 12 / Greatest Plot Structure
5:01 / Stages 9 & 10 / Greatest Plot Structure / Discovering Your Plot
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