" "Nothing happens in a vacuum. People can’t react without stimuli. Every action has a motivation—or it should. . .Conflict must be an intolerable state of affairs; it must be derived from problems or situations that your characters cannot ignore or explain away.. .This is an important lesson to remember: It’s effective to eliminate all possibility that the character could go back to life as usual. He can no longer return to an ordinary world." "

- Cheryl St. John