7 ways to add low-key tension to your fiction

“Less is more” can also be true of the tension you add to your fiction.

That is to say, you don’t necessarily need an over-the-top dramatic twist to get your readers to keep turning the pages.

Author Kathryn Craft shares seven ways to add an undercurrent of tension to fiction (along with example passages, to illustrate her point) at Writer Unboxed.

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