How do writers achieve that intensity?
The answer has to do with building suspense and adding a little fear of the unknown.
What is your character most afraid of? What loss would the character not be able to handle?
If you can push the character to face whatever it is that makes the world explode around them, your book will really take off.
The writing doesn't have to be fast & furious. It's the reader's thoughts that have to go crazy.
So, day 7 was pretty fun to write. My character is lying in bed next to her boyfriend thinking thoughts that will take her down that long & lonely road.
She's at the door of her biggest fear -- ending the relationship before it had a chance.
Scary!!!
What is your character most afraid of? What loss would the character not be able to handle?
If you can push the character to face whatever it is that makes the world explode around them, your book will really take off.
The writing doesn't have to be fast & furious. It's the reader's thoughts that have to go crazy.
So, day 7 was pretty fun to write. My character is lying in bed next to her boyfriend thinking thoughts that will take her down that long & lonely road.
She's at the door of her biggest fear -- ending the relationship before it had a chance.
Scary!!!
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