Below is yet another great article from Richie Billing. Can you think of a moment in a novel or story when you lost all awareness of your surroundings? The only thing that mattered was happening on the page, and then at the end you come up for air and utter a “fuck.” In reality, we don’t like a life full of tension. In fiction, however, the opposite is true. As … [Read more...] about Stopping the Reader’s Heart: Creating Tension