#35 Pop-Up... Creating Tension in Writing

The Pop-Up.

Over the last number of years, topics and fun things had come up that Kris and I wanted to talk about, but we had had no structure to do so. But now we do with these Pop-Ups.

These Pop-Up topics will just appear when something strikes us. No regular order or timing, but we hope to do more than one per month at least.

Each Pop-Up will consist of from 10 to 15 videos on the topic. Maybe some extra stuff if the topic needs extra. And then one short story prompt.

The Short Story Prompt

Each Pop-Up will also have a short story assignment to a specific topic associated with the Pop-Up. If you decide to write the short story, you can send it to dean at [email protected]

Instructions for each will be in the assignment video.

We will suggest markets if we know of any. Also, if the story fits something either of us are editing at that moment and we like it, we might ask for you to send it back for that project. To send it back or not will be your choice. You are not submitting a story to anything by sending the story to us for feedback. You are just getting us to read it like a first reader. Only we are experienced editors.

Why would we do this? Because, honestly, we love reading short fiction and we would love to see what writers could do with some of these topics at hand.

Pop-Up #35... Creating Tension in Your Writing

This is a focused look at just some of the many ways writers create tension in their stories. From depth to sentence and paragraph structure to movement to information, this focuses on the why of how tension is created for readers.

If you understand the how and the why of creating tension, it becomes so much easier to do and to hold readers through your stories. Lots and lots of writing tricks and techniques in this one.

And as you can imagine with this topic, there is a really fun short story assignment with this one as well.