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18.13: Finding the Core Conflict

Writing Excuses

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Introduction

This episode of Writing Excuses is 15 minutes long. We're going to be talking about finding the core conflict in a story. How are ways that we can build conflicts that are more interesting and do a good job of ramping tension up? And how do we get readers to feel tense about our characters conflict?

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