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Microtension in fiction is everywhere … at least in fiction written by excellent writers. All you have to do is…
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7 Ways to Make Readers Believe the Improbable in Fiction
There are few things that pull me out of a story faster than a plot hole. Actually, there are two…
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The Unreliable Narrator: How to Deceive Readers Without Losing Their Trust
Readers love surprises. They love the moment when the pieces suddenly click into place, and they realize everything they’ve read…
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Literary Pathways for Microtension
Microtension is one of the most important elements of fiction, but few writers have even heard about it. It’s tension…
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5 Techniques for Showing a Character’s Suppressed Emotion
Today’s guest post is by Becca Puglisi. Character emotion, when written well, links directly to reader empathy. Why? Because when…
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Seeing Microtension Everywhere
We’ve been looking deeply at microtension over the last couple of months (which partially led me to writing my new…
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Microtension in Fiction by Degrees
Over these past posts on microtension, we’ve looked at many ways to create contradictions and incongruencies in our prose to…
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Using Contradictions to Create Microtension – Part 6
One of the most powerful ways to create microtension is through contradictions between a character’s internal state and the setting…
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Using Contradictions to Create Microtension – Part 5
We’ve been looking at how to craft powerful mictotension (a must in fiction!) in these last few posts. In this…
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