Comments on: All Hail Internal Conflict – A Long Muddled Post In My Usual Rambling Way https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/ Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:41:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3902 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:41:32 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3902 Joanne – more yays for internal conflict. Hugs on the making it external though. You can do it! Just keep digging down into those layers.

]]> By: Joanne Coles https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3901 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:33:51 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3901 I, too, am a lover of internal conflict when it’s done really well, which is not by me! At the moment I’m having a really hard time not turning the internal external. Yes, I know, that’s a talent all of my own!!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3900 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:15:06 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3900 Elissa – *passes bubbly* Yes, funny you should mention that because one thing the ed told me was that authors need to be like therapists to understand their characters and their conflict. Which is why it’s so damn difficult! And why the conflict needs to be kept simple. The hero in my example fixes himself essentially through dealing with the heroine. Not by her sitting him down and telling him what he needs to do, but when he tries to control her, she refuses to be controlled. And so he learns that if he wants her, he must let go his control. This is the choice he makes at the end. And he needs to have learned enough by this point to know that a) when he lets go control good things sometimes happen b)controlling the heroine never works c) she’s worth giving up the way his life has always worked until now and take that leap of faith into making a change. Like that movie: ‘you make me want to be a better man’. 😉
So, not hard then. 😉

]]> By: Elissa Graham https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3899 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:06:09 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3899 I can come up with the conflicts but I find I keep trying to play psychologist and “cure” them instead of letting them work their way through it in the story – not good for the book I can tell you! So I need to concentrate on separating the writer from the therapist. I’m afraid vodka or gin just won’t cut it – it has to be bubbly (writers drink bubbly – therapists drink scotch) 8)

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3898 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:59:59 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3898 Rach – ack, I don’t know, m’dear. Understanding and doing are two separate things but thanks for the faith sweetie! 🙂 Inception is awesome. Google it.

]]> By: Rachael Johns https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3897 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:09:12 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3897 I’m joining the I-love-it-and-can’t-get-it-right club too 🙂 But you know what, you put that one example so simply that I think you DO have the understanding and I KNOW you can make it work!
Have never even HEARD of Inception!
x
Rach!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3896 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:52:11 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3896 Lucy – snap!! That’s exactly the same thing I get into as well. I love the angst so I try to add too much, make it way too complicated and totally forget the fact that these two are meant to fall in love! Bah. 🙂 Sure, got some gin around here somewhere. *rummages* *passes the gin*

]]> By: Lucy King https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3895 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:54:39 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3895 I feel your pain. My internal conflict sometimes ends up getting so angsty and convoluted that I forget the main point of the story is the romance 😉 Can I attack the gin instead of the vodka???

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3894 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:04:07 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3894 Nas – *passes bottle* It’s a horrible animal, let me tell you. It’ll eat you alive. You have to get it simple but deep. Oh and if you’re writing for Riva, it can’t be too depressing either. *pours self another vodka*

]]> By: Nas Dean https://www.jackieashenden.com/all-hail-internal-conflict-a-long-muddled-post-in-my-usual-rambling-way/#comment-3893 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:29:43 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=365#comment-3893 Need…need…the shot of vodka! Reading a good story with a great internal conflict is so satisfying…but writing…what is this animal? The animal known as Internal Conflict!

Pour me a shot please… Internal Conflict is going above my head level!!!

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