: Re: How to create interesting character conflicts How might one go about creating character conflicts that intrigue people? As in, ones that are innovative/original that are not cliched (for example,

The basic block of conflict is "Person or Group A wants something, and Person or Group B wants to stop that." The intrigue and originality are all in the details. Create intriguing characters and give them an original dilemma and you've got interest.

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: This sounds like a blunt-instrument extreme variation of "Kill your darlings." The idea behind kill your darlings is that sometimes we as writers fall too much in love with our own voices.

: Re: How to create interesting character conflicts How might one go about creating character conflicts that intrigue people? As in, ones that are innovative/original that are not cliched (for example,

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: Your narrator compares herself to others. I met Sandy at the coffee shop. I towered over her by a full head. Cheap and simple: Your narrator looks at himself in a mirror. In the

: Chicago-style "additional resources" at end of chapter I'm writing a physics Ph.D. thesis in Chicago style and I'd like to include an "additional resources" section at the end of each chapter.

: Describing the differences between languages To help create descriptive differences in the way my characters talk I am looking for a list of how each language sounds. For example the German language

: This sounds like a blunt-instrument extreme variation of "Kill your darlings." The idea behind kill your darlings is that sometimes we as writers fall too much in love with our own voices.

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