Big Idea Books - Where's the Conflict?

Yonofe: I always talk about, in fiction and in story, we need a great antagonist. You know, if we have a hero who's navigating a world in a work of fiction, there's always got to be an antagonist. And is an antagonist in big idea books. In this antagonist, steve brilliantly called resistance in the war of art. It wears many different hats and many different outfits. But the resistance in, say, the tipping point is not being able to find or sort of being stymed by the phenomena itself. Yonofe: The ending payoff mechanizes it, as strange as that sounds, it mechanizes the information that's been in both books