Understanding how to create tension in a story is key to writing a gripping, ‘I’ll just read one more page before bed’ read. Here are eight steps to ensure your story has effective narrative tension as well as tension between characters:
1: Create a conflict crucial to your characters
2: Create engaging characters with opposing goals
4: Allow tension to ebb and flow
5: Keep making the reader ask questions
6: Create internal and external conflict
7: Create secondary sources of tension
8: Make the story unfold in a shorter space of time
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