Plotting Conflict:
(includes internal and external conflict plot plan)

EXAMPLE -- CONFLICT PLOT PLAN

TITLE: ENDLESS FEAR

GOALS IN OPPOSITION:

HEROINE'S GOAL: To regain her memory and find out whether or not she killed her mother, Lily Cordell-Farraday.

HERO'S GOAL: To keep the heroine from remembering and learning that he killed her mother.

ANTAGONIST'S GOAL**: To keep everyone from finding out exactly how Lily died.

CONFLICT -- INTERNAL:

HEROINE'S: When she was fourteen, April Farraday fell in love with Spencer Garrick. Twelve years later, her feelings for him thrive, but she cannot have a life with Spencer or any man until she faces her forgotten memories and deals with them.

HERO'S: When he was eighteen, Spencer Garrick fell in love with fourteen-year-old April and vowed to wait for her until she was old enough to return his love. Then Lily died and trauma robbed April of twelve years of her life. All of which Spencer feels he is responsible for.

CONFLICT -- EXTERNAL:

HEROINE'S: April must return to Calendar House and delve into its secrets in order to be completely well.

HERO'S: Spencer also returns to Calendar House to face his own ghosts, memories that keep him diverting April's attempts to remember.

** For Romantic/Suspense

EXAMPLE -- CONFLICT PLOT PLAN

TITLE: SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE

GOALS IN OPPOSITION:

HEROINE'S GOAL: To make a faux copy of THE PURITY--a diamond necklace that was once a family heirloom--in order to bring some happiness to her dying grandmother.

HERO'S GOAL: To keep THE PURITY in his special collection of one of a kind pieces of jewelry.

ANTAGONIST'S GOAL**: To place the faux Purity in the collection and steal the real necklace which is extremely valuable.

CONFLICT -- INTERNAL:

HEROINE'S: Lyssa Carlyle hates The Purity--a necklace her grandmother calls the wedding necklace--believing it has caused her family years of conflict and unhappiness. A faux copy is as near as she wants to get to it.

HERO'S: Craig Rival holds The Purity dear. It not only reminds him of the love his parents shared, but was given him by his dying mother for his future wife, a daughter-in-law his mother would never know.

CONFLICT -- EXTERNAL:

HEROINE'S: Lyssa has promised her grandmother that she is bringing her The Purity, but her faux copy has been stolen. She must find it before her grandmother's condition worsens.

HERO'S: Craig doesn't believe Lyssa made a copy of The Purity, until the faux appears in The Purity's place. Then he suspects Lyssa is a jewel thief.

** For Romantic/Suspense

CONFLICT PLOT PLAN

TITLE:

GOALS IN OPPOSITION

HEROINE'S GOAL:

HERO'S GOAL:

ANTAGONIST'S GOAL**:

CONFLICT -- INTERNAL:

HEROINE'S:

HERO'S:

CONFLICT -- EXTERNAL

HEROINE'S:

HERO'S:

* From a talk by Betty Ann Patterson AKA Vickie York
** For Romantic/Suspense