Jordan Rosenfeld will be presenting at Arcade Library
2443 Marconi Ave, Sacramento, CA 95821
on Saturday April 20th, 2024 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
To keep a story taut, and to hold readers’ attention, you must learn to write with tension. Tension in novels, stories, and even memoirs is like the connective tissue that allows muscles to attach to bones, and thus flex their might. It’s the heart of conflict, the backbone of uncertainty, the hallmark of danger. It requires opposing forces, danger, conflict and a whole lot more at the scene level, and at the plot level. Learn to understand essential kinds of tension to write page turning stories.
What attendees will learn:
- Four key “elements” of tension.
- How to work with character goals and flaws to create inner tension.
- How to insure you’ve got a tense inciting incident.
- How to tighten the tension of your plot’s energetic markers.
- Ways to balance scene elements for maximum tension…and much more.
Jordan Rosenfeld is author of the forthcoming novel Fallout (Running Wild Press), as well as the novels Women in Red and Forged in Grace and six books on writing craft, most recently How to Write a Page-Turner. Her freelance articles and essays have appeared in hundreds of national publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and more. She is a freelance manuscript editor and writing teacher. Jordanrosenfeld.net.