The best conflicts are those that are inevitable to the story; those moments that must be there, belong there, and work best for that moment. Ideally, no other beat, action, line of dialogue, or plot point could be better. What does that mean? To find success in telling your tale, conceive of your storyline so that it is the only way for the story to move forward and resolve. When a story’s outcome is inevitable it feels whole and complete, and not as if it could have spiraled away in a thousand different directions.
