The title of this blog post, I realized the other day, is very true. Actually, I was sitting on the toilet. Plenty of conflict there, no? Anyway, I started thinking about this conflict issue. Every good fiction story has to have a conflict. It’s the conflict and the resolution thereof that is the story.

It’s nice to read someone’s blog when they’re a friend of ours and hear about their day, and something they did to have fun, or that they took their kids to the doctor. Great. Cool. I like hearing how someone I know is doing. But what blogs are going to get the most comments? Those that have conflict. For example, “Jenny jumped off the table at the doctor’s office and ran away, down the hallway, and a team of three nurses and two residents had to chase her. They coaxed her out with a lollipop. We thought we had convinced her to get the shot, but then when we got to the exam room, we had to sit on top of her to get it done.”

That’s a good story. Much better than, “We went to the doctor to get my kids shots.” Read the rest of this entry »