DiscoverEssential Guide to Writing a NovelEpisode 192 - Plotting: the importance of conflict, crisis, resolution.
Episode 192 - Plotting: the importance of conflict, crisis, resolution.

Episode 192 - Plotting: the importance of conflict, crisis, resolution.

Update: 2025-11-21
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In fiction in all genres only trouble is interesting.  How do we writers use trouble in our story?  Here are thoughts on how we can plot using conflict, crisis, and resolution, a technique important for all genres.  Also, should we use beta readers?  And the add-a-quirk technique.

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Episode 192 - Plotting: the importance of conflict, crisis, resolution.

Episode 192 - Plotting: the importance of conflict, crisis, resolution.

James Thayer