11.30: Elemental Thriller Q&A
We fielded the following questions about the “Thriller” elemental genre from listeners on Facebook and Twitter:
- How do I build tension consistently through my story?
- How do you maintain tension during dialog?
- When do you not use a cliffhanger?
- Do you ever picture your scenes as if they were in a movie?
- How much elemental thriller is too much for a book that isn’t a thriller? What’s the tipping point where you’ve switched genres?
- What do you do when the tension in your story peaks too early?
Credits: This episode was recorded by Daniel Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
Homework: Sit down with your manuscript or outline, and in the margins, add notes about the emotions you’re trying to evoke with each scene, and where in the scene it’s supposed to happen. This list of notes is your “beat chart,” and it’s going to teach you neat things about your story.
Thing of the week: Javelin Rain, by Myke Cole, narrated by Korey Jackson.
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