3 components of a strong narrative conflict
The conflict is the one single component that will make a strong narrative. How to create one that will support and carry the entire story?
The conflict is vital to the story because everything circles around it. Without conflict, there is no story. Stories with a weak or unclear conflict are much less involving for the reader.
But when we pin down the conflict, everything clicks into place.
The conflict is the story’s engine, but it is also its most potent magic.
But what is the definition of narrative conflict?
Let’s have a closer look!
What is a narrative conflict?
First of all, what is ‘conflict’?
Generally speaking, conflict is the clash of two opposing forces.
In a story, it’s the same thing. Two forces battle against each other, and that battle is the story itself.
The two opposing forces are the protagonist and the antagonist. There will always be an antagonist, the same way there will always be a protagonist, even if sometimes they appear in such a peculiar fashion that we may think they are not there.
