Thread 149018714

I think I've finally found an alternative to conflict in storytelling.

Conflict is not a mandatory thing.
You can get a similar effect to conflict, with novelty.

What do I mean, instead of conflict, you can use a piece of lore or informational retrieval that takes the character to move towards a newer point in the seek of a new informational novelty event.

It is the discovery of a newer point to move and the movement towards that point, that produces a similar avoidance of boredom and produced a flow in the story.

It is not the lack of conflict that bores a story, but simply it's stagnation without novelty that causes boredom.

All those well-known travelogues that everyone reads like uh...

>>149018732
music doesn't need storytelling conflict.
neither poetrhy.
neither things like parkour.
Or dancing.
Or learning a skill.

>>149018737
Those aren't stories with narratives.
Though concept albums do, and those revolve around a conflict. Tommy, The Wall, Operation: Mindcrime, and so on.

>>149018757
but they're human activities that doesn't revolve about conflict.

You can have a lot of fun learning to paint landscapes and sunsets in the countryside.

>>149018766
You can make a story without a conflict, but hardly anyone is going to want to read it or care about it.

>>149018771
that's because such stories are stagnant.

It's the stagnation what produces boredom.
Is not lack of conflict that hurt such stories.

It's the lack of new exciting stuff that happens, lack of novelty, what hurts such stories.

>>149018714 (OP)
You're describing the early seasons of Star Trek the Next Generation.

Poasting in a schizo thread.

>>149018778
There’s only so much mileage you can get out of “character goes to a new place and nothing bad happens”.

>>149018714 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nKKhr8f0wYA

>>149019137
the issue is stagnation, you need novelty.

As in a new challenge happens, like an artist whose canvas break, or that his toilet explodes, or a neightbor kitchen explodes.

>>149019154
>a new challenge happens
There’s a new word for that… it’s called “conflict”

>>149019167
I was refering to violence and kill characters, not entirelly all types of conflict.