Writing 101: Conflict is Essential to Plot

My kindergarten-aged son loved Packer Football, the cartoon Gargoyles and pestering his younger brother. 

I don’t remember all the things his new kindergarten friend loved.  But one day on a car ride over to our house, the friend told my son about a video his mom had just bought. “It’s called Care Bears. And they have all these great bears. They live in Care-A-Lot land. And there’s a bedtime bear. There’s a Funshine bear. And there’s a Tenderheart bear.”

My son must have been considering this deeply because it took him a long moment to respond. Finally, he asked, “Do they have any bad bears?”  

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