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Welcome to Game On! A wacky, wonderful mystery tour of why characters behave -and misbehave - and how they create conflict in your fiction. In this blog series, we will explore psychological motivations, needs and wants and how they create obstacles for your characters, thematic arguments for your story, a goal for your protagonist and antagonist and, hopefully, help explain why all of your characters do what they do.
1. THE HORROR GENRE: INTERPERSONAL SCENES

We've selected a subgenre, created external scenes and antagonist scenes. Now let's take a look at how the friends and foes complicate the situation.



Interpersonal Conflict scenes are where the protagonist consults a priest about banishing the demon. 

He learns from the librarian that all ghosts have unfinished business.

His buddy tells him he is crazy for believing in ghosts in the first place. 

This is usually where they learn the monster’s Achilles heel. 

The hero finds someone to let him into the witch’s castle. 

People will encourage him to stay and fight and some will beg him to flee. 

Some people will act for him or against him.


Next week, we'll finish up with internal conflict scenes.


For more about how to craft plots using conflict check out, Story Building Blocks: The Four Layers of conflict available in print and e-book and check out the free tools and information about the series on my website.








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