One reason we should stop teaching conflict as the only engine of plot is that it turns every writer into a worst-case scenario machine, with a brain trained to move any scenario toward further complications, reversals, & catastrophes until we become truly unbearable in a crisis.
It’s a chicken and egg variant: “Am I an anxious worrier because I’m a writer, or am I a writer because I’m an anxious worrier?”
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