Thoughts on Charater and Conflict

In an email thread, a couple of writer-friends and I were talking about writing issues. One of the difficulties was character conflict: making it real and rough and not easy to solve. I kind of spewed forth a bit of a mini lesson, gleaned from my time at Seton Hill’s Writing Popular Fiction MFA, ’cause this stuff gets packed into your head and pops out occasionally.

So here are my thoughts on character and conflict!

Note that there’s a wee spoiler for Just Business here, as well as a spoiler...