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Struggle
Okay, so you’re writing a story. You know who your main character is. You know who the surrounding characters are. You know what your main character wants. You even know how you want your story to end. You’re ready to begin writing . . . right?
Well, maybe. There is another crucial question to consider. Who—or what—stands in the way of your main character’s getting what he wants? In other words, how will he struggle?
The word that is often used in any discussion about writing stories is conflict. Conflict is a perfectly good word, but I prefer the word struggle. I have seen too many writers attempt to write stories in which the main character sits around all day long and looks at, thinks about, considers the conflict before him without ever doing anything about it.
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