Summer Shorts - Tension

Here are a number of suggestions for ways in which you can notch up the tension in the story you are telling:

• Plot twists
• Cliffhangers
• Red herrings
• Change the tone
• Change the pace
• Change the point of view
• Change the location
• Finish a paragraph
• Finish a chapter
• Introduce some dialogue
• Vary sentence length

Mix and match - experiment!