I wasn’t able to come up with a solid conflict for my character until this week. I began the project with the assumption that both my character and Hanna’s character would share the same conflict of the global pandemic. However, it became clear in the early pages of our piece that readers would sympathize with Hanna’s character, and strongly dislike mine. I decided that I needed to think of a reason for the readers to sympathize with my character as well. I knew I wanted to make the conflict more internal to add some contrast between the two characters, but I also didn’t want to make it about loss, grief, or anything that would hit a bit too close to home for me, so I went with something far from anything I’ve experienced. It’s also something that makes a lot of sense given the context of the project and the relationship between the two characters. Now that I’ve figured out the conflict, I’m all set to finish up the writing!