Writingcamp + Afterlife

Week 5: How to design conflicts/Afterlife

Basically, Gregory is innerly controversial by himself: everything is coming to him, so it may seem - yet he has to fulfil his social duty to keep that order of thing going; that condescending to mundane woes makes Gregory utterly unhappy.

Egotistic in nature, he has to share his world with others, care about the others, otherwise the state of things may change n unacceptable manner.

As eh and Helen begin to know each other better, as she begins to influence his inflated ego, making Gregory more caring about other people - without doing heavy damage to his self-esteem - the need to change also becomes a conflict. Helen isn't "a girl for one day", she is not a passer-by - as anything that causes changes, she also brings storms and seasons change to Gregory world.

As Gregory experience "imaginary death" event, his world begins to crumble from a different side: he never believed in alternate timelines, in afterlife or reincarnation - as reality begins to question his beliefs, Gregory faces the necessity to change the beliefs: to either embrace the frightning alternate life story of him, or purge it somehow out of his mind.

Actually, Helen becomes the force that can keep Gregory inner self solid, to prevent him from falling apart. Since Gregory never wished to rely on anyone else for that matter, it becomes, perhaps, the most significant conflict of his life. There's hardly a way to escape it - although there are more than two possible ways to overcome it.