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HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR PLOT WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFLICT

By: Emily Wenstrom

Conflict is critical to plot development. It’s where your characters move forward the plot of your story. But… well, sometimes a plot just doesn’t seem to want to move. If you find your plot is stuck in a rut, it may be that it doesn’t have enough dimensions to it.

Yes that’s right, dimensions. Plot dimensions.

How many conflict dimensions should your story have? Just like Goldilocks’s bears and blind mice and stooges, the answer is three: external-world conflict, external-personal conflict and internal conflict.

Here are the three dimensions of conflict: . . .

Read the full article HERE!

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1.  Seriously Write: Setting the Backdrop for Family Series Romance by Mary Manners http://ow.ly/uTvxA
2. RT @elizabethscraig: How to Publish With Your Own Imprint: http://ow.ly/uHplc  @PeaceNicole
3. Fiction University (The Other Side of the Story): Real Life Diagnostics: POV and Voice in a YA Historical Opening http://ow.ly/uTwdK
4. How to Find a #Critique Partner and Set Ground Rules - JeriWB http://ow.ly/uTwSc
5. Tips for Taking Your Reader on a Road Trip | Elizabeth Spann Craig http://ow.ly/uTyAZ
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7. Smashwords: 10 Reasons Indie Authors Will Capture 50% of the Ebook Market by 2020
8. Traditional Publishing, Self or Independent Publishing: Which to Choose and Why | Author U http://ow.ly/uTzPg
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10. Divas on Dialogue: Direct and Indirect Narrative - Write Divas | Write Divas http://ow.ly/uTB3K
11. 5 Valuable Charts That Show How Publishing Is Changing | The Passive Voice |  http://ow.ly/uTC2U
12. Amazon for Authors, Part One: Opportunities - Charlotte Rains Dixon http://ow.ly/uTCgt
13. Amazon for Authors, Part Two: Tools and Thoughts - Charlotte Rains Dixon http://ow.ly/uTD4m
14. RT @elizabethscraig: Handle synonyms with care:  http://ow.ly/uFDS6 @Roz_Morris
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24. Who Are Literary Agents and Editors Anyway? | The Passive Voice | http://ow.ly/uVc1A
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28. How to know your book's audience. Click to tweet. http://www.booksandsuch.com/?p=20690  via @JanetKGrant
29. Writer's Edit On Writing the Opposite Gender - Writer's Edit http://ow.ly/uVdgm
30. How to Tell a Seductive Story - Copyblogger http://ow.ly/uVdn9
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