Directors and producers use music, lighting tricks, special effects and lot of other visual tricks to create tension in their movies.
Authors also create a lot of tension in their books using a variety of techniques (craft moves).
In The Missing Girl, Norma Fox Mazer uses lots of craft moves in the first chapter to create a lot of tension for the audience.
Spolier alert, metaphor, symbolism, intentional vagueness, odd details, word choice...
Read your books, and search for instances where the author is using a craft move to create tension in the scene. Use post its to mark the examples and identify the craft moves on the post its.
HW: 5 tension post its for tomorrow
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