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This is the third in my series of articles on how to captivate your audiences and readers with the use of conflict – your most powerful tool for eliciting emotion with your stories.
Speakers, marketers and entrepreneurs need their own “signature” stories to present to audiences, followers, clients and customers. These are the compelling, autobiographical stories that establish a writer or presenter’s likability, understanding, expertise...

After offering my introductory article on CONFLICT (the one about Tiger Woods), I got a lot of kind and thoughtful responses (thanks, everyone!), including this one from a follower named Dan:
Michael –
I agree about needing conflict in stories. But I try, and I fail. I am a nice person. Always have been – never in conflicts; same wife for 40 years. So I struggle having my characters do things I could not imagine doing. When I try to include conflict...

(The phrase “Spoiler Alert” has permeated the media so frequently in the last few weeks that it’s probably unnecessary to repeat it. But I’m providing that alert anyway to anyone who hasn’t yet seen the final season of Game of Thrones, and who doesn...

I recently posted a series of articles about how to use desire to define your story, to drive the action and characters toward a satisfying resolution, and to captivate your readers and audiences. In this new series I will reveal why CONFLICT – the obstacles...