plot ideas, conflict ideas.

[huxley]

i'm either looking for a link to a web site where I can find a list on different conflits for stories.
or we could share ideas on the conflits we observed through films or books we read.
i'll start the list:
revenge.
kidnaping.
disaster
buried threasure/destination story.
want are some more conflict ideas the you've seen.

i thinks it's call disruptive event in the story.

[Faceless Woman]

My favourite is Goodie In Love With Baddie.

[j. d. worthington]

Let's go for something a little different: How about the fact that even well-intentioned, good people often have completely opposing ideas of what is the best course of action, especially in a crisis? And sometimes there simply is no viable compromise...

Or Lovecraft's epistemological conflict: the view we've always had of reality, and of our place therein, is proven to be a hollow mockery, a fairy-tale we've told ourselves throughout our existence in order to protect out tender egos; and the protagonist finds him/herself confronted with the truth without any option of evasion, not even madness (despite the stereotype, darned few of his characters actually go mad; like Hamlet, they've seen beneath the surface of reality to the grim truth, and are perceived as mad -- or emotionally disturbed --by those who have not....)

Loss -- not through any cruel action, but simply through accident, or chance. Readjustment to that loss, which may be great enough to completely disjoint the future course of someone's life from their past; the internal conflicts of that readjustment -- can it even be made, given their personality?

Conflict with nature ("Leiningen versus the Ants", for example)

Internal conflict between doing what one feels to be right, and what will most benefit one, including the conflict of knowing the effect on others, and the possible conflict with those others as a result...

Coming into possession of the knowledge that a loved one is going to die, knowing they'd rather not know (or not being certain whether they'd want to or not), and the strain keeping that knowledge from them, out of love and concern, would put on the relationship with that person; what if you're belief in what they want to know or not know is mistaken? What if it's right, but you begin to resent having to keep it to yourself?)

Conflict over your own mortality. Conversely, what if you found out that you were immortal? Emotional conflict over that ... and conflict with others...

Those are just a few that come to mind right off....

[Saolta Oiche]

Blackmail, that can be done in tons of ways.

Mind control if you want to really come out of the box.

Duty can cause such.

Mercenary folk.

hmm loads more but leave it that for now.

[JohannaWalker]

I know of three; Death, Love, and Seperation...I hope that helps, those are the basic ones that I know of..they lead out to about every conflict.
Theres also always envy, pride, lust, greed, and wrath

[JohannaWalker]

theres also predjudice

[tehuti88]

You might want to Google something called the "36 dramatic situations." This is a listing of many basic plots used in all sorts of works of fiction (e. g., "conflict with a god," "an enemy loved," "self-sacrifice for kin," etc.).

[daisybee]

Originally Posted by tehuti88

You might want to Google something called the "36 dramatic situations." This is a listing of many basic plots used in all sorts of works of fiction (e. g., "conflict with a god," "an enemy loved," "self-sacrifice for kin," etc.).

found this:

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

good tip.