Fiction Needs Friction
Back in November I attended the New England Crime Bake and came home with all sorts of stimulating and useful stuff swarming in my head and the intention of posting the best of it here. It's going to take a while. (You don't need to know about the water leak in my wall, right?) But here's the one word that sticks out most: Conflict.
I realized my characters are way too reasonable. They play off each other, enhance each other, exchange witty repartee, but there isn't enough tension in their relationships. They'd make nice folks to live and work with in real life, but fiction needs friction. It needs unreasonable people, reasonable people behaving badly, people with tempers and egos and contrary streaks.
Fiction Needs Friction.
I realized my characters are way too reasonable. They play off each other, enhance each other, exchange witty repartee, but there isn't enough tension in their relationships. They'd make nice folks to live and work with in real life, but fiction needs friction. It needs unreasonable people, reasonable people behaving badly, people with tempers and egos and contrary streaks.
Fiction Needs Friction.
posted by AliasMo | 7:06 PM
1 Comments:
You should read, "Immediate fiction" by Jerry Cleaver. He definitely agrees with you that Fiction needs friction. He helps figure out how to do it too... Hope it helps you as it has helped me!
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