Comments on: Creating Tension with Lizard-brain Writing https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Tiffany Yates Martin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81519 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:03:20 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81519 In reply to Anne.

That's so great to hear! (Not your challenges in your writing...but that this helped...) 🙂 Hope revisions go really well, Anne. Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: Anne https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81441 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:03:12 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81441 This is so great. A welcome jolt of how it can be better. I have been staring at a scene in my WIP and knew it was going to fall flat because the story is at the point where tension needs to be running high in the protag. The reader needs to FEEL it as it grows and grows. I vaguely told myself the reader would have to 'latch on' and not let go till the big 'fall' came... Just so they could fall too, but nothing I did was working well, only because I couldn't articulate this in my head. - Not making much sense, but just so you know, this post helped put everything into perspective. It really, really did. Thank you!!

]]> By: Tiffany Yates Martin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81417 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:39:09 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81417 In reply to Orly Konig Lopez.

Thanks, Orly! Always happy to be here.

]]> By: Tiffany Yates Martin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81414 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:38:30 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81414 In reply to Susan A. Jennings.

I'm so glad, Susan! Sometimes images like that are the easiest way to keep a storytelling technique in the forefront of our minds. Thanks for your note!

]]> By: Susan A. Jennings https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81384 Sat, 25 Apr 2015 21:03:27 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81384 Tiffany,I enjoyed this article. The lizard brain is going to stick in my brain every time I write a scene with suspense. The primary fear, excellent. Thank you.

]]> By: Orly Konig Lopez https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81297 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:23:50 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81297 I'm late to the lizard party. Great to see you here, Tiffany! Thanks for blogging with us. 🙂

]]> By: Tiffany Yates Martin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81265 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:24:32 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81265 In reply to wendyleslie.

Thanks for the note, Wendy. Glad it was helpful.

]]> By: Tiffany Yates Martin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81262 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:23:48 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81262 In reply to littlemissw.

Thank you! That's nice to hear--glad it helped.

]]> By: wendyleslie https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81259 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:30:40 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81259 Thank you, Tiffany. A clear cut solution to building tension and getting rid of endless fluffy writing. I can see the "find" tab working overtime.
Cheers, Wendy

]]> By: littlemissw https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/04/creating-tension-with-lizard-brain-writing/#comment-81256 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 03:31:27 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=19336#comment-81256 Excellent. This is the clearest explanation of how to write tension I've read in ages. Thanks for the tips.

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