Creating Conflict in Character and Desire

To create conflict, you need three things: a main character, a goal for her or him, and opposition.In carving out the characters of your protagonist and antagonist, connect each one's deepest desire to his fundamental difference from the other.Shakespeare gives us an elegant example of this in Hamlet and his foil, Laertes. Hamlet is a man of honor — bona fide honor. Laertes is a man of seeming —