1. Determine if it's internal or external conflict 2. Decide if your character has agency against the story's supernatural force 3. Set the rules for the supernatural elements in your story

1. Invent goals and obstacles 2. Find the moral gray area 3. Practice saying "no"

1. Character vs. Self 2. Character vs. Character 3. Character vs. Nature 4. Character vs. Supernatural 5. Character vs. Technology 6. Character vs. Society

Internal vs. Eternal Conflict

An informal fallacy

1. Kill off a seemingly important character 2. Let your character discover a plot twist organically 3. Elevate a seemingly minor character 4. Have your big reveal instigate a twist ending 5. Make sure your plot twist is earned

1. A supposed ally of the protagonist 2. An ostensibly important story element turns out to be a red herring 3. When the main conflict appears to be resolved 4. A new piece of information reveals that the story has unreliable narrator 5. A flashback or cutaway reveals information that the audience has but the story's characters do not 6. A new character appears from out of nowhere to upend the existing narrative

1. Just write 2. Gather topics beforehand to avoid using outlines 3. Time yourself 4. Combine freewriting with traditional outlines or notes 5. Do bring ideas to your sessions

1. Creative expression 2. Writer's block 3. Speed

1. Choose a premise and write it up in a one-sentence summary 2. Expand that one-sentence summary into a full paragraph 3. Create character summaries 4. Build your character summaries into full profiles 5. Expand to a multi-page synopsis