Comments on: Conflict AND Connection http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/ Moving Forward on the Writing Path Sun, 27 May 2012 16:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1537 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:01:22 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1537 Stella, it’s just the names of each character across the top and the same ones down the side. Yeah, I think it would help during revision. I know it’ll change!

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1536 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:00:33 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1536 Panic makes a good organizational motivator. :)

]]> By: Stella Michel http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1535 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:55:02 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1535 What a terrific organizational tool! I wish I could see it better (but my eyes are bad and I can’t see the words on the chart). I can’t write that way, not when doing a first draft, but I could see using something like this during revisions.

]]> By: Sherrie Petersen http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1534 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:22:38 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1534 Wow, I’ve never seen something like this. You are SO incredibly organized!

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1533 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:17:41 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1533 Jenn–that’s exactly right. The chart also helped me see where I don’t have character relationships at all thought out–I don’t know at all where the grandmother and two grandsons conflict OR connect. I took guesses for now, but know I’ll need to figure out more as I go.

Thanks for the start!

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1532 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:16:35 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1532 LK, it’s not as complicated as it looks–basically I filled in with short, one or two word notes for each.

I’d love to see your two-column plotting chart. Maybe you should put it up on YOUR blog. :)

]]> By: Jenn Hubbard http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1531 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:53:41 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1531 Wow, yes. There was a point when I was working on The Secret Year when I realized the main character’s “nemesis”–his main competitor–was also the only other person in the world who would experience the same grief over the girl who dies (not a spoiler; she dies on page 1). So even these characters who were complete opposites in many ways were connected too!

]]> By: LK http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1530 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:42:10 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1530 Great idea but far too mathematical for me. ;-) I’ll have to stick with my disorganized notes and plain two column plotting chart.

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1529 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:35:12 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1529 Hope it works for you, Amy.

]]> By: beckylevine http://beckylevine.com/2009/08/22/conflict-and-connection/#comment-1528 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:34:32 +0000 http://beckylevine.com/?p=1040#comment-1528 I’m so bad with charts that if I don’t actually get it looking right, I can’t work with it. And, yes, I love the conflicted motivations that come out–when a character wants two things (or more!).

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