How To Write a Perfect Fictional Conflict

Green Book as an exhibit A of why and how a good conflict makes wonders for the story.

Nika Nikolic
Nov 3 · 4 min read

My first attempts at writing ended poorly because… well for many reasons. I didn’t really have any clue what I was doing. I wasn’t even aware that there are some things I should have been doing. I was writing fiction after all, what else than just…

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Psychoanalyst and political scientist. Balancing richness of complicated concepts and their everyday use.

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