Workshop: Creating Conflict

Title: Workshop: Creating Conflict Category: Story Process Clicks: 0 Listing added: Mar 9, 2008

You're sitting at your desk staring at your manuscript, realizing that you've written ten or fifty or three hundred (ouch) pages in which nothing really happens. People talk to each other and they go places and they do things, but you couldn't find enough suspense in what they're doing to fill a thimble, and you're creeping up on the sneaking suspicion that your book is a wash, your ideas were stupid, and your characters are duds. Or worse, that you are. Maybe it's time to throw in the towel, admit defeat, take your parents' advice and go into the family wax-dummy business.

Don't do that. You can fix this. It may not be easy, but if you want to save your characters and your idea and at least some of the work you've already done, you can.