#22: How to Evaluate the Conflict in Your Draft

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Savannah Gilbo

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In today’s episode, I’m going to walk you through my five-step process for evaluating the conflict in your novel. Here's a preview of what's included: [01:20] Progressive complications are moments of conflict that gets harder and harder to deal with overtime. To learn more about writing good conflict, check out last week's episode (episode #21). [02:30] Step 1: Identify what your POV character wants and how they plan to get it. You’ll also want to have a good understanding of what your chara...

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0:00.0	Hey there, Savannah here. Before we get into today's episode, I wanted to share our next book
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1:03.0	So it's the moment that forces your protagonist to face a decision about what to do next.
1:08.0	You can think about it as a moment where your character looks around and says, well now what am I going to do so they've either
1:13.7	just learned something that changes their circumstances or they've done something that
1:17.8	changes their circumstances or something has happened that's changed their circumstances.
1:23.0	And in a perfect world, the turning point of your scene
1:25.8	would be that last complication on your list
1:28.9	or the most complicated thing your character has to deal with.
1:32.1	Welcome to the fiction writing made easy. complicated thing your character has to deal with.
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