Primary and Secondary Conflicts

Segment 1

So we have a couple of things to catch up on first. Two weeks ago was HorrorCON. How did that go?

Our dear friend and writing group lead, Ginny Padgett passed away on September 11th. So we’d like to take a moment to honor Ginny and talk about her influence on us.

Segment 2

In August, we talked about antagonists and their impact on the protagonist’s pursuit of his own objectives. Check episodes 241 and 242 for details. In thinking about all the elements of a successful plot, I considered taking us down the “plot arcs” road again since our shows from last December on those topics do not have recordings available for them. But I wanted to make sure we do those one after the next and since it’s football season, we’re on an every-other-week rhythm here right now.

So, that said, we’ll keep looking at plot elements until we can get back to the plot types and arcs. Today’s element is conflict. 

• Primary conflict
• Secondary conflict
• Adjacent conflicts.

We did conflict about a year ago. Check out that episode here.

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