PLOT: Increasing tension

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Tension - the anticipation of what will happen next in a story.

1 - don't let your character have what they want.

2 - ask how you can make your characters situation worse.

3 - build flaws and conflict into your setting/story world.

4 - create conflict between your characters.

5 - increase the consequences of failure for the hero.


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