CONFLICTED ABOUT CONFLICT? A guest post from Conda V. Douglas, short story maven

Today I welcome Idaho writer Conda V. Douglas. Conda’s had more than100 short stories publishedand has written a great book on writing short stories, Write Short to Succeed. Recently she mentioned to me how many stories lack real conflict, so I asked her to share her thoughts here. Welcome, Conda. And congratulations on The Mall Fairies: Warwinning the Epic eBook Award 2016 for children’s/young readers!

Now to the conflict.

Conflict: that most necessary element of writing anything and yet som...