Conflict Creates Tension

Conflict creates tension. If you have a character who, they have a goal, there's something that they really want, they're going to go after it if nothing ever snnds in their way. So conflict creates barriers, and it creates difficult situations that cast doubt in the reader's mind as to are they going tobe able to get there. And so then they want to keep reading because they want to make sure that the character is going to be ok. I mean, i don't really want to watch or just read about somebody whose life is all perfect... we don't expect happy people in happy land.