4:19 / Tests from Enemies / Discovering Characters

2023-04-19

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 a...

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

0:39 Intro
1:41 Opening
3:28 1st Test
6:43 2nd Test, in 2 forms
9:35 3rd Test
11:40 4th Test, with 2 choices
15:43 Love Interest
18:32 Closing

Total Run Time = 20:11

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