ABSTRACT
This chapter tackles one of the more complex and difficult topics in creative writing: the opposition. What is a main opponent? How do you find one? How do you know you have the best opposition? What are they going to do in the story? These are just some of the questions that writers have when they try to come up with a meaningful central opponent in a story. To help the writer avoid cookie-cutter solutions or bad guys right out of central casting, the Enneagram-Story Connection supplies a proven approach to structuring the opposition based in story structure best practices and the Enneagram system. The chapter defines what an opponent is and what kinds of opponents should be avoided, and then introduces the Opponent Triangle Tool as a tool for helping the writer leverage the power of the Enneagram to construct the pitch-perfect antagonist for any story.
