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“Conflict is the engine of fiction,” said author Jerry Jenkins.
Without conflict, you don’t have a novel. And you need to have different types of conflict in a novel.
In this episode, Margie Zable Fisher joins internationally-acclaimed bestselling fiction novelist Lana McAra and lays out for you how to create a strong central conflict for your novel.
When you incorporate different types of conflict throughout your novel, it makes for #Unputdownable fiction writing as your readers turn the pages to see how it turns out.
Tune in and hear Margie Zable Fisher’s thoughts on:
- Why we need conflict in novels
- Different types of central conflict for different genres
- Whether conflict should be in every chapter and scene
- Some examples of conflict that can be used to drive a plot forward
- And much, much more!
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About the Author: Margie Zable Fisher
Margie Zable Fisher is the co-author, with her mom, Rona S. Zable (now deceased) of The Cabernet Club, a novel publishing with Sibylline Press on January 31, 2025.
Before becoming a full-time writer and author after age 50, Margie owned a P.R. agency for 20 years.
Her articles have been published in the New York Times, AARP, Fortune, Next Avenue, and more.
She is a wife and mother, loves cabernet and the pool, and competed in her first triathlon after age 50.
She plays pickleball several times a week and considers it a good day if she achieves genius status playing the New York Times Spelling Bee.
Margie and her family live in Florida.
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