Well, guys – another book is out in the world!
The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 1) is a game-changer for writers, screenwriters, game designers, and anyone else who needs a steady stream of ideas on how to challenge their characters inside and out.
Conflict is a big deal. It touches everything: plot, pacing, characterization and character arc, theme, stakes, and more. It’s one of the best tools out there for helping our books stand out from others in our genre, too…if we use it the right way.
This book will help you brainstorm meaningful conflict scenarios that capture attention. Instead of just throwing rocks to slow their progress toward a goal, we’ll show you how to target a character’s soft spots. You’ll learn how to cause them to struggle internally while challenging them externally, forcing them to dig deep if they are to succeed.
Here’s a more detailed look at this book.
Find the full list of conflict scenarios (& sample entries) here.
Here’s what people are saying about The Conflict Thesaurus.
And here’s where you can buy it, print and digital.
All this talk about conflict has us wondering one thing: how would you do if you were in the hot seat instead of one of your characters?
Introducing…
As writers, we shove our characters through life’s meat grinder, again and again. But what if YOU are the protagonist who has to face difficult problems, obstacles, and dilemmas?
Will your choices lead to victory…or failure?
Let’s put it to the test! Survive, and you might just win something neat.
Yes, there are some great prizes waiting for you in the Conflict Challenge, but would it be a Thesaurus book release without a giveaway? Of course not. So…
ENTER OUR GIVEAWAY, TOO!
Subject to our legal policy, of course. Draw ends midnight October 15th, EST.
Giveaway now closed. Watch your inboxes in case you’ve won!
Thanks for celebrating with us. Shares are greatly appreciated!
After you take the CONFLICT CHALLENGE, send your fellow writers to this post so they can test their survival skills, too!
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Angela is a writing coach, international speaker, and bestselling author who loves to travel, teach, empower writers, and pay-it-forward. She also is a founder of One Stop For Writers, a portal to powerful, innovative tools to help writers elevate their storytelling.
Oh – so glad this one is finally here! Congrats to you both, and thank you for all the work you do supporting writers!
Congratulations on the new book!
I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books. And the Challenge is super fun, all the horror movies and books I’ve watched and read help to make it to the end at the first attempt
Nice work! Glad you had fun. FYI, whatever team you ended up on, if you take the challenge again you can win a different prize by succeeding on the other team. 🙂
Camp Deadwood is amazing. I love it. 😂 Congratulations!
Haha, thanks! I hope you survived and picked up your goodies, Carrie!
What a blast! I loved being stymied by the geniuses behind the Conflict Challenge! I’m dying (well-dead already per the Challenge) to get my hands on the book! Appreciate all the giveaways, too! Lucky winners all!
Isabel, so glad you had fun with the Conflict Challenge! I hope you find those prizes really useful, and thank you for the kind words and enthusiasm <3
CONGRATULATIONS!! Its been released to the world! Will order it in a second, just had to go to Camp Deadwood first.
‘Died’ the first time as I picked what would have been my personal scaredy-cat option 😂 Second time, decided to actually put on my writer’s hat (duh!) and made it! What a fun idea, thanks for the trip… I think 😉
Right, off to order my copy, can’t wait to get my mitts on it 🙏
Joy, I am so glad you survived! But dying is also part of the fun too, right? Thanks for taking the challenge – I hope you encourage others to take it and see how they do!
And thank you for adding the Conflict Thesaurus to your bookshelf! <3
I never win – so I bought your fabulous new Thesaurus and now I have it on iBooks. Yay! I feel like a winner – thank you! 😀
Aw, you are the best, thank you! But enter the draw anyway, you never know! And in the Conflict Challenge, if you survive, you win! In fact, you can win two different ways! So keep trying and collect your goodies!
I believe the prize is for US participants only. That’s absolutely fine. I have your awesome addition to the Thesaurus family right now – exactly when I need it, Angela! All the very best to you and Becca.
The subscription box is US-only, but the books prizes are international. 🙂 And of course everyone wins if they survive the Conflict Challenge!
Yay!
Congratulations, Angela and Becca! What a great accomplishment. I also liked the trek to Camp Deadwood. (Note to self: never go on a road trip where Becca is driving.)
Looking forward to the two of you being my blog interview guests in November where we can go into detail about your Conflict Thesaurus.
Best wishes!
Bwahahaha, she does have a lead foot, doesn’t she? Glad you had fun on the challenge!
Someone did give me a Cruella cap back in college as a nod to my driving abilities…
That was quite the “campy” story, but fun. Thanks for the rewards.
Right? That’s exactly what we were going for – glad you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to challenge your friends to take on Camp Deadwood to see what their result it! 🙂
A huge congratulations, ladies! This is a must-have for my resource library! I entered and hope I win!!
Thank you, Jan! Fingers crossed for you!
Took me three tries but I made it. LOL!
Wooo-hooo! Congrats! Challenge your friends to see if they can do better, haha!
Good luck with the latest addition of your fabulous books.
Thank you, Darlene! We hope this one is a big help!