Tales Suspense
Tales Suspense
Your Readers Love to Read About Tension Between Your Characters
Tension is built up on a wave of emotion. Emotion fuels the tension and vice versa. Every story needs tension to some degree or other because as a rwiter you want to grab the emotions of your readers. Tension is one way to do just that.
So just what is tension? It is where your character is being pulled in two, even three directions at once.
Imagine Lizzy Battlebridge, the heroine in our tale of everyday country folk, falling for Tom Roding the tractor mechanic. She has been giving him the eye and knows he is interested. Problem is she's been seeing Ralph the postman for five years now and is really in love with him. Or is she?
This, of course, is the classic love triangle, but in our story we must show the emotions that Lizzie goes through as she is torn between Tom and Ralph. We must show the excitement and even danger of her new love, whilst at the same time telling the reader what she goes through whilst trying to sort out who she will end up with. Plus there is the fear of having to tell Ralph, assuming he hasn't cottoned on already (but maybe he has!), and her agonies over what Ralph might do and say when she does pluck up the courage to tell him.
Tension is usually something which develops over a period of time and several incidents or conversations, but it is possible to hit the reader between the eyes with a situation that generates tension immediately. This will often be when the tension arises between just two people or between one person and a situation.
Here are examples of both of these situations:
Lizzie is in the Post Office staffroom about to relieve her workmate at the counter when, through the half open door, she overhears two cusomers talking...
Scenario 1: They say that Tom's tractor hit a tree and he landed on the ground in agony. He's now on his way to hospital. Lizzie can't go and sit by his bedside until her shift finishes at 5.30. But wait! She has arranged with Ralph to pick her up and go into Milchester for a Macdonalds and a movie! This is where we must build up the tension as Lizzie is forced by circumstances to go through the evening with one beau whilst agonising over the fate of the other. It could be protracted over several days as one thing after another prevents her from seeing Tom.
Scenario 2: One customer is telling the other they have just heard that the Melksham & Milton Keynes Building Society is in turmoil. The Chief Cashier has disappeared and vast amounts of cash have disappeared with him. Lizzie's life savings are with MMM. What is she going to do? Of course, there is insurance in place to cover embezzlement, but Lizzie doesn't know this. Yet. When she does, tension relieved.
In a previous article I have spoken about using suspense in a story. Suspense and tension are blood brothers and virtually inseparable. If you've generated one the other should be close on its heels. The difference is, and this is a generalisation, that suspense can be held over a long period of time, whereas tension needs to be introduced at intervals followed by the relief of that tension. Until the next one. Otherwise your readers are going to have no nails left!
So, in our storyline with Lizzie we could say that the suspense of who she is going to end up with runs throughout the story, but scenes of tension, such as Tom's precipitation from the tractor, make up just part of the story.
Now if you've got an hour or so, I would be awfully grateful if you would kindly finish the story above as I'm dying to know what happens to poor Lizzie. Will she, won't she? I'm on my fifth black coffee and the suspense is killing me!
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Tales Suspense
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Sports Betting Secrets – The Tell-Tale Signs Of A Hot Favorite Going To Lose
To some punters, betting on sport games might seem an easy feat. It might be true if you are planning only to earn a few bucks from the game. Yet, if you treat is seriously, it can change your fortune. Historical playing record always has an influence on the outcome of the match which is why most of the time the favorite wins but the payoff rate is low. The key to winning huge amount of money from sports betting is to identify matches which the underdog will upset the favorite.
You need more than just luck in order to get this right. However, with experience and eagerness to learn, you will be able to pick up the necessary skills.
Here are some of the tell-tale signs which might show that there are chances of an upset.
#1 – Injury of key players.
Yes, first and foremost, take note of injuries of the star players in the hot favorite team. For example in baseball game, the pitcher is very important. Losing essential players will lower the performance of the team.
#2 – Suspensions of players
Such as in soccer matches, having a backup inexperience player standing in for a regular goalkeeper could prove costly for the team when he was red-carded and given match ban.
#3 – The adjustment of odds
The sports bookmakers information is usually the best as they have a wide network of intelligence and resource to predict the game. However, if they are happily accepting bets for the hot favorite and the odds did not decrease further, something is very wrong.
About the Author
Tank Tan enjoys watching sports games and earning money.
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