Getting Comfortable with Conflict and Crawling

This writer had no idea about scene structure, conflict, dialogue or any of the other elements of writing a book. I thought I’d writea wonderful story in which the character(s) would go through experiences ranging from happytoharmonious. This was probably a reaction to mychildhood—where there was a lot of conflict. During those periods of conflict, I would hide in the barn or get lost in the woods. To this day, I have trouble getting through the conflict in a book or movie, even though I know...