I read an interesting blog entry last week by Jennifer R. Hubbard: Tension: Desire and Obstacles in which she states tension is desire balanced by obstacles. Nice take.
Stories definitely need to have some tension to make it into our hold-for-voting file. So, give us your tension. Let us publish it in our ezine. :)
Anyone got any other good definitions of tension?
The unofficial submissions deadline for the next issue is April 15, 2010.
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I once had a screenwriting teacher define conflict as:
Your character loves their cat, but the cat is stuck in a tree.
And tension as:
There's also a bear in the tree that likes to eat cats.
Not really a definition, but I thought the example might help out. :)
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