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Tension: The Missing Ingredient in Your Writing

February 17, 2012February 17, 2012erchristensen1 Comment

Today I’ll be posting a trifecta of comments on posts by Rachel Aaron (you can find her on Twitter and Facebook). Sit down and buckle up, because today you will get hit with a ton of writing advice. The first post I came across was a guest post by Rachel on magicalworlds.net (and just as…

Creating Tension in Your Writing

November 14, 2011erchristensenLeave a comment

At the heart of just about any piece of fiction is conflict. Will the hero get the girl? Will the heroine slay the dragon? Will the villain triumph? But in order to have conflict, there must be some tension as our character’s attempts to achieve his goals are thwarted again and again. How do you…