Seeing Microtension Everywhere
We’ve been looking deeply at microtension over the last couple of months (which partially led me to writing my new…
We’ve been looking deeply at microtension over the last couple of months (which partially led me to writing my new…
Over these past posts on microtension, we’ve looked at many ways to create contradictions and incongruencies in our prose to…
One of the most powerful ways to create microtension is through contradictions between a character’s internal state and the setting…
We’ve been looking at how to craft powerful mictotension (a must in fiction!) in these last few posts. In this…
When writers think about tension in action, they often focus on movement—what physically happens in a scene. That can create…
We’re continuing our look at how to use contradictions to create masterful microtension in our fiction. In this post, we’ll…
We’re continuing our look at microtension in fiction and how to use contradictions to craft it masterfully (click here to…
I can’t say this enough: masterful microtension in fiction, on every page, is what turns a good novel (or short…
Microtension. What is it? Just what the word implies: tension in story on a micro or small level. The word…

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