Push Your Characters Out of Their Comfort Zones

Micro-Tension: Push Your Characters Out of Their Comfort Zones

We’re always talking about taking our characters out of their comfort zones, making them do things they don’t want to do, making them face things they don’t want to face. These are usually things that mark critical turning points in a book. The claustrophobic hero has to rescue someone from a cave. The guy with the snake phobia has to drop into the pit filled with the slithering beasties.

But what about the little things? The simp...