Writers helping Writers: I really love this site. I bought Emotion Thesauraus written by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi (Writers helping Writers) and let me tell you, this is one of the best writing resources out there. So today I wanted to share with you one of their posts on Conflict Vs Tension. Sometimes I really struggle with that, so when I read this post, I was like...
A snippet of the post: ....TENSION in literature is important because it evokes emotion in the reader. Think of it in terms of real-life tension–that tight, stretched feeling in your belly that makes you all jittery. This is what you want your reader to feel in every single scene of your story. Tension connects the reader with the character and most of the time will keep them reading to the end of the book....
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