Class on monday we learned that the brain is the most powerful source of conflict and I find this comment to be completely true. It goes with the idea that the best antagonist is yourself.  Which reminds me of one of my favorite shows,  United States of Tara (showtime)

Tara combates to control her body while struggling with DID, dissociative identity  disorder. It is pretty crazy and awesome at the same time, at least in my opinion. Plus its based out of Overland Park, Ks.

We than discussed that we need to be careful not use the "God Machine" which Jenkins described as totally proponderous, which I agree with. 

That in particular reminds me of my nerdy RPG days when a group of friends and I would all write a story with our own characters on a message board, all of us contributing. Every once in a while someone would try to do what we called "Godmodding" or "power playing" and they would give their players outrageous powers or abilities or made it so their characters never died, which was unrealistic and boring. They usually got banned. 

But moving on, Jenkins went of to use the term deus ex machina, which means for "An unexpected power or event saving a hopeless situation, esp. as a plot device in a play or novel."(google.com) which Jenkins called unrealistic and we cannot have an external force assist a character. Which I obviously agree with.

We also discussed in class the three act structure, which looks like a baseball diamond. this system will help us the the structure of our stories and see how our story will develop.