Escalating Conflict–It’s a Good Thing.

When real life is peaceful, calm, serene, yet informative, we rejoice.

When fiction is peaceful, calm serene, yet informative, we yawn, put down the book and go clean the gutters.

Lesson 5 of How to Revise Your Novel analyzes the overall conflict as well as the scene conflict and then brainstorms it higher and tighter and more interesting.

The gutters may never get cleaned again, and that’s a good thing for your novel-writing career.

Check it out.