{"id":9428,"date":"2017-04-01T04:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T04:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict\/"},"modified":"2017-04-01T04:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T04:19:44","slug":"the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"The significance of plot without conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/25153960313\/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">stilleatingoranges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around <i>conflict<\/i>: a confrontation between two or more elements, in which one ultimately\u00a0dominates the other. The standard three- and five-act plot structures\u2013which permeate Western media\u2013have conflict written into their very foundations. A \u201cproblem\u201d appears near the end of the first act; and, in the second act, the conflict generated by this problem takes center stage. Conflict is used to create reader involvement even by many post-modern writers, whose work otherwise defies traditional structure.<\/p>\n<p>The necessity of conflict is preached as a kind of dogma by contemporary writers\u2019 workshops and Internet \u201cguides\u201d to writing. A plot <i>without<\/i> conflict is considered dull; some even go so far as to call it impossible. This\u00a0has influenced\u00a0not only\u00a0fiction,\u00a0but\u00a0writing\u00a0in general\u2013arguably even\u00a0philosophy.\u00a0Yet, is there any truth to this belief? Does plot necessarily <i>hinge <\/i>on conflict? No. Such claims are a product of the West\u2019s insularity. For countless centuries, Chinese and Japanese writers have used a plot structure that does not have conflict \u201cbuilt in\u201d, so to speak. Rather, it relies on exposition and contrast to generate interest. This structure is known as kish\u014dtenketsu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/25153960313\/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict\" class=\"tmblr-truncated-link read_more\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stilleatingoranges: In the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around conflict: a confrontation between two or more elements, in which one ultimately\u00a0dominates the other. The standard three- and five-act plot structures\u2013which permeate Western media\u2013have conflict written into their very foundations. A \u201cproblem\u201d appears near the end of the first act; and, in the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}