My Article Database: Free Articles for Teaching and Studying English as a Foreign Language in China - by Paul Sparks




 Homepage
 About Me
 Teachers
 Students
 Lessons
 Photographs
 Links
 World News
 ICQ Chat
 Contact Me
 Articles
 
My Article Database:

 

Accounting
Acne
Adsense
Advertising
Aerobics
Affiliate
Alternative
Articles
Attraction
Auctions
Audio Streaming
Auto Care
Auto Parts
Auto Responder
Aviation
Babies Toddler
Baby
Bankruptcy
Bathroom
Beauty
Bedroom
Blogging
Body Building
Book Marketing
Book Review
Branding
Breast Cancer
Broadband Internet
Business
Business Loan
Business Plan
Cancer
Car Buying
Career
Car Insurance
Car Loan
Car Maintenance
Cars
Casino
Cell Phone
Chat
Christmas
Claims
Coaching
Coffee
College University
Computer Tips
Cooking
Cooking Tips
Copywriting
Cosmetics
Craft
Creative Writing
Credit
Credit Cards
Credit Repair
Currency Trading
Data Recovery
Dating
Debt Relief
Diabetics
Diet
Digital Camera
Diving
Divorce
Domain
Driving Tips
Ebay
Ebook
Ecommerce
Email Marketing
E Marketing
Essay
Ezine
Fashion
Finance
Fishing
Fitness
Flu
Furniture
Gambling
Golf
Google
GPS
Hair
Hair Loss
HDTV
Health Insurance
Heart Disease
Hobbies
Holiday
Home Business
Home Improvement
Home Organization
Interior Design
Internet Tips
Investment
Jewelry
Kitchen
Ladies Accessories
Lawyer
LCD / PLASMA
Legal
Life Insurance

Return to Articles about Copywriting

Short Story Writing Tips - Is Your Conflict Resolved By Another Character?

by: Nick Vernon
How great is it when weˇ¦re going through a major crisis and someone comes up with a solution for us?

In real life we hope someone will solve our problems and sometimes that happens. Someone else solving our problems is the easy way out.

This wonˇ¦t do for a story.

In short stories, the character has to solve his own conflict.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Let me give you an example of another character solving the main characters conflictˇK.

The main characterˇ¦s goal is to save enough money to buy a car. The conflict is whether he should buy it because he has many other bills.

So, in the story we see him struggling to pay off his debts and see him weighing the decision to buy a car. In the end, after all this struggle, up comes the father to the rescue, who presents him with a car. The ending to this story is weak becauseˇK


„« All that struggle was for nothing.

„« The character didnˇ¦t reach his goal - his father reached it for him.

„« The reader wasnˇ¦t allowed to feel the exhilaration that the character won, because his father stepped in.

„« The sympathy or empathy the reader felt for the character was destroyed in the end.

„« Readers were let down.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Strong characters are those, that besides the problems and obstacles they face, the sacrifices they have to make, and the worry they experience, they finally pull through.

But for a character to be strong, he has to start strong, continue strong and yes, you guessed itˇK end strong.

Another character solving his conflict deprives him of what is his.

He is deprived of the feeling that comes from meeting his goal and by depriving our character of the feeling, we are also depriving the reader.


About the author:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Besides his passion for writing, Nick Vernon runs an online gift site where you will find gift information, articles and readers funny stories. Visit http://www.we-recommend.com





 

New! Watch Online Articles with YouTube for Free:

 

 

 

 

Click Here to Return to Top of Page