Posted on July 19, 2023 at 8:54 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Our characters (like us) can certainly encounter a number of inanimate or abstract sources of tension.
But as Becca Puglisi points out in a new post for Writers Helping Writers, there's nothing quite like the friction caused by our interpersonal relationships.
The risk you might run in writing, though probably not in real life, is resolving these conflicts between characters too efficiently.
She shares a few disruptors to prolong your characters' personal conflicts (and story tension) in that post.
And if you're like me, the person who can push your buttons like no other is a sibling.
Author Radhika Sanghani shares five craft secrets for creating tension between siblings in fiction, for Writer's Digest.
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