I found the following five tips from Inkandquills.com posted on Facebook:
- Don’t let your characters have what they want.
- Ask how you can make your character’s situation worse.
- Build flaws and conflict into your setting/story.
- Create conflict between your characters.
- Increase the consequences of failure for the hero.
Author: Phil Slattery
Publisher, Rural Fiction Magazine; publisher, The Chamber Magazine; founder, the Farmington Writers Circle. I have written short stories and poetry for many years. In my careers as a Naval officer and in the federal government, I have written thousands of documents of many types. I am currently working on a second edition for my poetry collection and a few novels.
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Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 