From the course: Leading with Stories
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Challenge, conflict, and resolution
From the course: Leading with Stories
Challenge, conflict, and resolution
- Once your audience knows the setting of the story and who your main character is, it's time to get that character into an interesting situation and see what happens to them. Let's talk about the next three parts of a story: the challenge, the conflict, and the resolution. First, let's look at the challenge, which answers the question, what was the problem or opportunity the main character ran into? Now, this is sometimes called the complication or the catalyst because it's the moment that a monkey wrench gets thrown into the hero's original plans and sets off the entire series of events in the story. It's usually pretty short, just a few sentences, but just because it's short doesn't mean it's not important. If you left out the challenge, nothing interesting could happen in the rest of the story. You need the monkey wrench or the story won't make any sense. Now, let's talk about the conflict. This is the heart and the soul of storytelling. The conflict is where you answer the…
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