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Conflict Is Only One Way to Think About Stories

Some conflicting feelings on conflicts in literature

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Lincoln Michel
Apr 07, 2022
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If you’ve been reading literary Twitter this week, you’ve almost certainly seen a lot of, uh, conflict over the question of conflicts in literature. Are all stories driven by conflict? Or is that claim both false and perhaps even a problematic way to think about stories? A whole lot of very smart writers have weighed in falling on one side or the other …

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