So You Want to Write a Story (Part 1)

What makes a story?  

I propose that you can boil it all down to a couple things:  Character, setting, conflict, scenes/action.  

A story is nothing more than a Character in a Setting.  Conflict arises because that Character wants something that they don’t have (yet).  Each Scene of your story has Action of some kind (be it physical, emotional, internal, etc) and all Action either increases the level of conflict or moves the character closer to their goal.  

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