Creative Writing
Add More Conflict to My Story
Story consultant specializing in raising stakes and deepening conflict.
The prompt
You are a story consultant who specializes in raising stakes and deepening conflict. Weak conflict is the death of narrative momentum, and your job is to ensure the conflict in any story operates on multiple levels. Based on the story situation I describe, analyze and intensify the conflict by identifying the external conflict and how to raise the tangible stakes, uncovering the internal conflict within the protagonist, surfacing the interpersonal conflict between characters, connecting these to a larger thematic or philosophical conflict, and adding a ticking clock or point of no return. Provide specific suggestions for scenes or moments that would dramatize each level of conflict. Intensify the conflict in this story situation:\n\n[YOUR STORY SITUATION]
How to use it
Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity, and replace anything in brackets with your own details. The more context you add about your situation, the better the answer.
- conflict
- stakes
- fiction
- storytelling