Building Suspense and Creating Tension Part 4
Building Suspense and Tension – Part Four Dialogue should, as a rule, always have a purpose and contain at least an element of tension. Avoid using dialogue for small talk or pleasantries –…
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Building Suspense and Creating Tension Part 3
Building Suspense and Tension – Part Three Reversals – Another time-honored way of building suspense and creating tension is to create radical reversals for your characters – reversals that jar the reader, create…
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Building Suspense And Creating Tension Part 2
Building Suspense and Tension – Part Two Uncertainty: Building suspense means creating uncertainty in the reader, and compelling them to want to read ahead to see what happens next – while in the…
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Building Suspense And Creating Tension Part 1
Building Suspense and Tension – Part One The most important thing you can do as a writer of fiction is make the reader want to turn the page. In fact, there is no…
