Was about to write this blog article, when I picked up my cup of coffee.
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Oh, no.
Here we go. The blog article becomes a mini-book in itself. Conflict has started.
I am out of coffee.
Character goal – get more coffee.
Setback – coffee machine is downstairs.
Goal – I must go downstairs, with cold feet, and go to the coffee machine, and get more coffee.
Obstacle – laziness has set in, and I’m comfortably writing in this chair.
I have to overcome the setback (go downstairs), which is the same as my character goal. I must overcome the obstacle.
Foreshadowed conflict – my feet are cold. So that means:
The floor downstairs is colder
I’m going to stub my feet painfully.
Hans will order Rudolph to shoot the glass. Oh, wait, that’s Die Hard.
Growing conflict – I’m now losing the will to write, due to lack of caffeine.
The coffee downstairs has a time element to it. It’s growing increasingly bitter, since it’s two hours old. If I don’t hurry, it will be undrinkable, and symbolic death will happen in the story.
Break into Three moment – my Burmese cat looks cute, and I have to pet him.
I’m growing more despondent and weaker without the coffee, which is growing more bitter at a steady pace
CLOSE IN on Coffeepot, doing nothing. A bubble rises to the top of the coffee.
Pop.
Cut to: Nicholas slumped over in chair.
NICHOLAS
Coffee….
To be continued….
