How to Create Tension without Overt ConflictNovember 21, 2024If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. I have a confession to make: I…
Analysis: How Storytelling Makes the StoryAugust 1, 2024If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. My roommate when I lived in New…
Lucky Breaks and Tough ShakesMarch 30, 2023If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Readers, if you spend any time at…
How to Create Tension with Dialogue and SubtextNovember 24, 2021If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Tension—the friction or obstacles that keep your…
Creating Tension with Lizard-brain WritingJanuary 16, 2021(This is one of my most popular posts; it originally appeared on the Writers in the Storm blog in 2015.)…
