The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 1) (Writers Helping Writers Series Book 8)

As someone who has been writing fiction my whole life, I felt like I had the whole "how a story works" thing in the bag. Make some characters, slap them somewhere, keep it engaging, yadda yadda. "I already have a plot," I said. "I already have ideas."I initially bought this book for collection purposes. But flipping through turned into mindful reading, and that reading perfectly connected all the ideas in my brain to form more structure, more meaning to the things that happen in the story. To fully conceptualize and understand a conflict's ins and outs, its done a lot more than get me out of writers block! I absolutely recommend to any writer, beginner or not, any book from this series!

I regret the fact that I tried and failed to purchase this volume and the second. I did succeed on the third attempt though. These books are important to me in aiding my writing.

This book shows how long is the trip from the idea to the last point of the story. It's a great collection. Never seen before. It makes the reader humble. Writing is a full time job, not a game.

Für angehende Autoren, die ihren Charakteren Tiefe und echte menschliche Gefühle verleihen wollen, ein absolutes Muss! Besorgt euch die gesamte Reihe, es lohnt sich definitiv!

Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi should be on every writer's bookshelf. Conflict is at the core of story and this book will teach you why as well as how to craft exquisite conflict that both creates killer stakes for your characters and hooks your readers for life.Ackerman-Puglisi's thesaurus is so much more than just a "thesaurus". It's a tutor, a guide, and a writing mentor all crammed into one thesaurus. Not only that, but packed into the front end of their latest thesaurus is an array of writing lessons you NEED if you want to craft the best conflict for your story. They dive into internal conflict, why you need it, what it should look like and how to craft it on paper at the story, scene, and character level. And that's aside from the dozens and dozens of conflict entries.Ackerman-Puglisi have done it again. This really is a must read for any writer hoping to improve their characters and stories.