"There's no plot. There's no conflict. There's no antagonist."

[intertribal]

Reading Query Shark led me to realize that I did not know what Ilium's "conflict" was.

That can't be good.

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[royinpink.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know what Notes from Underground's conflict was, so I wouldn't put conflict as the principle around which a story is built. Just saying.