A Simple Tip To Increase Tension in Fiction

Have you considered the importance of doors? No matter what kind of story you’re writing, being able to increase tension in a scene, to get the reader to shift to their edge of their seat, is tricky business. Doors are an opportunity to pause, force the character to take a deep breath. Commit to the next step of the journey.

“Be an opener of doors.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doors not only shut an opening, they provide a measure of privacy, security even. Ever noticed how characters will often paus...