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How To Create Tension

How To Create Tension

It’s all a bit tense… You might think of tension in a novel as being obvious ‘edge of your seat action’: the FBI agent running down the rabid serial killer, the guy dangling by his fingernails off a window ledge. In fact, all great novels are powered by tension of some kind or another. It […]

February 25, 2016 | By Lucy Atkins | 4 Replies More

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