User blog comment:Zathronas/Author's Advice: Complication/@comment-16763585-20140127215035/@comment-24218038-20140128003409

I don't agree, the author is by definition creating conflict in his story. He creates the complication. Observing conflict implies being a spectator. Certain sories work like that (forest gump comes to mind) but your proagonist has to do something.

If your doing an epic story type, your hero will have to be active and not passive. But i'll explain the hero archetype at a later date. For now let's just say that I haven't seen much original stories without conflict in it. And those are created by the author.