As writers, we need to have emotion and drama on our pages to engage our readers.
Or as Donald Maass stresses in his Writing the Breakout Novel and BONI Intensive Seminars…
Tension on every page.
Check out this video for inspiration on ways to add drama and a little Friday Free Day fun:
That’s crazy! But it does make your point…although I’m not sure I’ll be able to work the football players into my current WIP.
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I hear you. Personally I’m having a hard applying any of that to my mainstream women’s fiction. But, if I wrote suspense or thriller some to the ideas aren’t bad. LOL