Heather Adams, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/adamsheather/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:40:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Five Ways to Increase Micro-Tension https://booksbywomen.org/five-ways-to-increase-micro-tension-by-heather-adams/ https://booksbywomen.org/five-ways-to-increase-micro-tension-by-heather-adams/#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2017 05:00:31 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20452 How do we keep readers invested in what will happen next? As writers, we want readers on the edge of their seat, even in scenes that don’t justify heart-pounding action. Micro-tension, a term I first encountered in Donald Maass’ The Fire in Fiction, offers a solution. Recently I’ve been working on micro-tension in my own […]

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