tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055731.post3315344605394400769..comments2024-01-06T11:19:53.852+00:00Comments on Kate Walker: CONFLICT - Questions and AnswersKate Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17277223651288830541noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055731.post-27530722912288853702010-08-23T08:36:20.032+01:002010-08-23T08:36:20.032+01:00Kate - many thanks for replying to my question! Ap...Kate - many thanks for replying to my question! Apologies for not commenting, have been in Australia. <br />Anyway, this makes a terrific amount of sense so thank you so much. I think I add complications not because I have too many layers in my onion (like I thought initially) but because I skip some and reach the core of the onion too quickly. I have the whys, I just have my characters becoming too self aware, far too quickly and so by the middle of the book, I need to add more complications (unrelated to the core conflict) in order to keep the tension going.<br /><br />But no longer! I shall keep referring to this post as a reminder to go through the layers, but not too quickly.Jackie Ashendenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15564893115525415518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055731.post-47691343365312333782010-08-19T01:07:44.985+01:002010-08-19T01:07:44.985+01:00Hello Kate Walker,
Love this post, it has pulled ...Hello Kate Walker,<br /><br />Love this post, it has pulled me out, by the hair, of my cave and wip.<br /><br />I think of an authentic emotional conflict as the following:<br /><br />Opposites do attract, no doubt about it. Certainly within character archetypes, even though they are opposites, the thing that underpins them as people is a fundamental belief system. <br /><br />Physical attraction will bridge the gap - in the shape of uncontrollable lust which eventually evolves into <br />love - but in the world of romance it needs more than that. I think they need to have exactly the same value system (goals), and belief system (motivation) even though they hide these from each other for many valid reasons (conflict). <br />This makes sense to me. However, reading this back, it may not make sense to anyone else!<br /><br />BTW I'm signing with my pen name these days. I am Christine Carmichael Kate, and you rock.<br /><br />xxCC MacKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09903422375744085705noreply@blogger.com