3 Ways to Add Tension to a Scene

By Janice Hardy

If your scene lacks excitement, try making someone squirm.

I wrote an interrogation scene for my detective WIP that should have been dripping with tension, but it read like a giant infodump. No resistance. No stakes. Just the bland back-and-forth of information I wanted readers to know, and the whole scene just went splat.
This is pretty common, especially in early drafts. We know what happens in our story and why, so we tend to skip over the uncertainty that creates that all-important story tension. 
But without that uncertainty, scenes can feel like they're just going through the motions.Continue ReadingWritten by Janice Hardy. Fiction-University.com