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.

>>24468208 (OP)
This is just a charatcer being in conflict with his ignorance. He wants to know something but is impeded by his lack of knowing so he ventures forth to conquer it

>>24468233
Or also can be about discovery or self mastery.

A story about spending 10 years to capture the perfect spot to paint a masterpiece you saw as a child, can capture what I mean, without the need of conflict.

Understanding conflict in a literal way makes for an entry-level piece of advice. On another level, it simply means change, and there is quite literally no way to avoid it as one either reads or writes a book. I think what makes one boring or captivating are very arbitrary, personal things.

>>24468234
Any opposition to a desired outcome/goal is conflict in a narrative sense. Achieving self-mastery or discovering new things is about defeating weakness and the unknown.

>>24468249
yes, but they're not interpersonal but inner conflict.

>>24468253
Inner conflict is still conflict. Novelty isn't an alternative to conflict if it's just being used as inner conflict under a different moniker

>>24468263
yes, but I was talking that two oposing forces is not required.

There's not an oposite force in the MC wanting to find the perfect spot to capture his picture he had as a child.

>but there's inner conflict
No, because there's really not an oposite forced that will kill him if he doesn't suceed.

Your own artistic expectations is not an oposite force.

>>24468272
>Your own artistic expectations is not an opposite force.
It is though. You don't need a violent/hostile external factor for a force to be considered in opposition to another.

>>24468279
but I was refering to violence and the need to kill other characters.

not necesarelly that all types of conflict has to be eliminated.

>>24468283
Nowhere in the OP is any of that specified.

>>24468285
I'm not writing a college essay.