3 quick ways to create conflict in your fiction, before you even start writing

Prior to beginning to write your novel, you should do some significant thinking about your characters, so that those characters, right from the start, will both come across as real and begin to drive the action of the novel.

You should also do some preplanning of your plot.

I recommend tying these two streams of thought and planning together by asking how conflict (and thereby the story) might arise simply from who your characters are. Here are three quick and easy…