The 3 Easy Conflicts to FIX Your Story #authorlife #writingcommunity #writingtips #author #fiction

Did you know there's only 3 different ways you can have conflict on the page in your story? There's basically 3 planes this exists on. The first is the physical plane. When there is a disruption to your character's physical place, somebody pushes them, somebody bumps into them, somebody steals something from them. The physical plane. This is the easiest to write because we can see it. We can see it happening. The second is the social plane. This is when there's a disruption between 2 characters, the relationship between two characters. If somebody says something mean to somebody, something rude, that causes a disruption in the character's relationship with another character in your story. And then the third and final one is the ideological plane. This is the hardest one to write because you want to just tell the reader what's going on. It's harder to actually show the way you're supposed to, but the ideological plane is all about the beliefs of the character, the worldview. If the way they see the world is being attacked, if a devout Christian is told by a character they trust that there is no God or that Christianity isn't real. That's an ideological disruption. So this all boils down to the three different planes. All the conflict, all the tension in your story comes with some mix of these three planes: the physical, the social, and the ideological. And if you can get the tension happening on all three at the same time, you've got a story that the reader's gonna care about.