{"id":32096,"date":"2013-01-06T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T00:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/the-evitability-of-conflict-in-narrative.html"},"modified":"2013-01-06T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T00:57:56","slug":"the-evitability-of-conflict-in-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/the-evitability-of-conflict-in-narrative.html","title":{"rendered":"The Evitability of Conflict in Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is fascinating. I sometimes pooh-pooh the worldview that everything is a zero-sum conflict, Us vs Them, if you&#39;re not with us then you&#39;re against us, etc. But that&#39;s the basis for all Western literature &#8212; situation, conflict, and someone wins. \u00a0That&#39;s what all the writing books say. \u00a0But is conflict actually the only way to build a plot? \u00a0Apparently not &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116872422881905005705\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"116872422881905005705\">Fred Kiesche<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/oi48.tinypic.com\/33thvyv.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/25153960313\/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict'>The significance of plot without conflict<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around conflict: a confrontation between two or more elements, in which one ultimately dominates the other. The standard three- and five-act plot&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/eMw4mhj84h6' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fascinating. I sometimes pooh-pooh the worldview that everything is a zero-sum conflict, Us vs Them, if you&#39;re not with us then you&#39;re against us, etc. But that&#39;s the basis for all Western literature &#8212; situation, conflict, and someone wins. \u00a0That&#39;s what all the writing books say. \u00a0But is conflict actually the only way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/the-evitability-of-conflict-in-narrative.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Evitability of Conflict in Narrative&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50249,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/easy-to-pooh-pooh-the-rah-rah-of-alumni-weekend-but-singing-the-alma-mater-in-a-crowded-auditorium-gives-me-chills.html","url_meta":{"origin":32096,"position":0},"title":"Easy to pooh-pooh the rah-rah of Alumni Weekend, but singing the alma mater in a crowded auditorium gives me chills","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-May-15 5:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Easy to pooh-pooh the rah-rah of Alumni Weekend, but singing the alma mater in a crowded auditorium gives me chills #PomonaAW15 View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/its-not-wrong-if-everyone-knows-youre-doing-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":32096,"position":1},"title":"It&#039;s not wrong if everyone knows you&#039;re doing it!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Dec-16 8:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I saw this quote yesterday and couldn't quite believe it. 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