Developing Conflict in Your Setting

Give it multiple drivers and high stakes.

Lawrence E. Grabowski
Cultivating Wonder
Published in
4 min readAug 27, 2020

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Conflicts. They are a horrible thing to experience personally but a fantastic thing to experience vicariously through art.

There’s one central conflict driving a lot of the tension in my Camelot setting: the three-way contest for the throne between Mordred and Morgause, Lancelot and Guinevere, and Sir…

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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.