A Single, Overarching Conflict Makes for a Boring World

Diverse conflicts provide more story hooks and make your world feel more real.

Lawrence E. Grabowski
Cultivating Wonder
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3 min readAug 10, 2020

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Control of the entire world.The fate of the galaxy. Mastery of the universe. These are stakes in some of my favorite stories. Rarely are they set in my favorite worlds, however. Often once the story is over, most of the setting’s conflicts…

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Lawrence E. Grabowski
Cultivating Wonder

Kung Fu Nerd, Gamer, Writer. I write about setting, plot, and characters as well as teach Spanish. I also dabble in writing about other things.