Writing Conflict

Creative conflict is the world’s most powerful ideation technique. It’s an essential requirement for breakthrough-thinking and the secret behind every invention and innovation ever made.Are you overwhelmed by problems that need solving? Stuck looking for ideas? Pressured by deadlines and...

The Leader’s Pocket Guide provides you with on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct you on your professional journeys. Organized into three sections--self, colleagues, and organization--this useful guide spurs leaders to be ever growing in their careers, and includes lessons on major...

Conflict in your writing draws listeners who want to listen to your work. Conflict keeps them listening. With conflict in every paragraph and sentence, you’ll create writing that sells.

Move beyond good writing and reach the human heart. This concise guide shows how to create fiction that’s felt as well as understood. Written by Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr James P. Manning, it reveals how the language of emotions helps writers build believable inner lives, authentic conflict, and empathy that keeps readers engaged. Learn why the body reacts when reading and how to craft scenes that leave a lasting mark.

Best-selling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: The photo-editing process of the “paper of record”, by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.