7 Tips For Adding Tension to Your Story to Keep Readers Reading

This article was originally published on Dan’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy blog. Check out his website if you love dragon fantasy books!

The mountain groans above you. Cracks break through the ice. One piece, sharp as a dagger, slides off and hits the snow by your boots. More groans resound above as if the mountain is alive. As if it wants you dead. A larger chunk falls off and splinters into a thousand shards just behind you. You run, but how can you outrun an avalanche? Ice pelts your face, nips at ...

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