Give your protagonist two motives. They must sacrifice one to achieve the other.
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Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
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Your characters' flaws should be a barrier in achieving their motive.
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Put drawbacks on all magical or scientific objects. Let these drawbacks affect your character negatively.
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Let the decisions your characters make be the direct cause of conflict, even if they believed their decision would be beneficial.
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Your characters should be wrong every now and then.
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When faced with two choices, both should have positive and negative consequences.
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For Writers
RandomI just decided to make a book of tips, challenges, words to use, book titles, ideas, etc. for writers. There are probably better books but what the hell! Enjoy! ☆〜（ゝ。∂） 【Credit to Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram and myself】 『Published: 1/24/16』
