# MC Counterpoint and Conflict
**URL:** https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032
**Category:** Dramatica Theory
**Created:** [May 23, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032 "2017-05-23T19:37:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@prenez](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/prenez)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032/1 "2017-05-23T19:37:17Z")
They’re just textboxes and, in the Story Guide Tree, branches off Issue. Any method for creating them?
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### Author:  [@prenez](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/prenez)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032/2 "2017-05-23T19:45:33Z")
wait ok, the counterpoint is the other half of the dynamic pair of the named Issue.
_cough_ application could probably pull that from the data _cough cough_
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### Author:  [@prenez](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/prenez)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032/3 "2017-05-23T20:02:23Z")
but wait - I don’t see Value in characteristics…so…where do I find its counterpoint? Hmmm
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### Author:  [@prenez](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/prenez)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032/4 "2017-05-23T20:04:06Z")
answer: in the dramatica dictionary.
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### Author:  [@prenez](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/prenez)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032/5 "2017-05-23T20:07:39Z")
so…it looks like, the objective value of something in some marketplace, even a figurative one like the marketplace of ideas…
vs what it means to me.
I can get 500 for this used Macbook…but my beloved Winifred made that mark gnawing on it just before she was translated into the heavenly beyond, with a help from the blow of this sturdy poker, and so it means much to me, reminding me of every insult she leveled at me and every humiliation I suffered at her behest, and how I dispatched her…sooo easily…I would not trade this Macbook for all the teakwood in Thailand, or all the guns in America.
like that.
and wow, the Counterpoint being part of the mix makes what I was going to write here SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING. How cool.
And it also reverses the thought I had about value. I started out ‘the character has no value to himself.’ but no no no that’s worth. so instead…the character realizes he has value to a great many people for specific things…everyone has a use for him, but that doesn’t add up to feeling good about himself or any kind of self-regard because he is being what other people want him to be, not what he wants to be.
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### Author:  [@MiggsEye](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/MiggsEye)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032/6 "2017-05-27T11:02:20Z")
Thanks for sharing this peak into your creative process/realization. It’s helped me understand Counterpoint much better.
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### Author:  [@prenez](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/prenez)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/mc-counterpoint-and-conflict/1032/7 "2017-05-27T13:05:20Z")
most excellent. Glad it helped.