Scenes as Conflicts
I got this crazy idea while working on a story. What if we were to think of our stories as a sequence of conflicts which in turn serve to resolve The Conflict of the story? Sounds like a no-brainer to me; in fact it sounds like the way we tend to write stories; I’ll go further and say we do write stories that way, but rarely so consciously.
So now I wonder how my stories would differ if I were to think of my stories as a series of scenes, each one having a conflict that drives it, and each scene resolving it’s conflict and progressing to the next.