Organizing Function Of Managment

Having introduced the protagonist and the conflict posed by his antagonist in the introduction the writer now turns his mind to how the protagonist is going to resolve the conflict. The novice writer makes his hero conclude as soon as possible, denying the reader a pleasurable reading experience, because the enjoyment lies in the hero’s repeated attempts at success, which are denied, before he finally reaches his objective.

This is rising conflict, the sequence of reversals that the protagonist must overcome, and understanding it is crucial to the creation of a good story. Every rise in the conflict must be organic and believable and on no account must it be bolted on just to stretch the story out to the required word count. To give a very basic example, a hero attempting to climb a ladder who has to overcome a broken rung is believable, being knocked off the ladder by a swinging wrecking ball isn’t, unless you’re writing a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Barriers to success

To avoid being driven to distraction by having to conceive of setbacks to flesh out the story, it is vital to pre-plan the story and set out what the barriers to success are going to be and where they are going to occur in the story arc. The hurdles must also become higher as the story progresses, so that the hero’s ultimate success becomes a major accomplishment.

Physical and emotional problems are conflict