Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.
I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.
There's conflict in every story.
Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
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