If you want your story to excite, engage, or impact your readers, you need to show your characters facing opposing forces. They need to have conflicts. Each time your characters face a conflict, they have to make a choice. That choice is going to have consequences. Those consequences will advance the plot and cause character growth. There are two major types of conflict – internal and external – and the stories that leave the greatest impact on readers tend to have both.
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