Hey /lit/ do you have any tips on making a book or a scene tense?

Make a countdown :)

works every time! like a charm

add desert eagles

Its all about context, buildup and foreshadowing, study the movies with lots of tension for examples

Tbrh you wont find too much good advice here, because most people on /lit/ cant write a decent plot to save their lives. They compensate with prose wankery and pretend theyre too good for it.

>>7753747
>implying plot matters in any way whatsoever
>movies

top pleb

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I just downloaded A High Wind in Jamaica, and some of the slogans the director was talking about make some sense, although I'm watching it with the sound off.

He's beginning with the action of a rainstorm...no one can quite hear anyone else. Animals scurry across wooden bridges, children seek refuge in the trees, a tree collapses on a thatched cottage hut, pictures shake upon the wall, the support structures collapse, the family makes their way underground where the children open bottles of wine... Donkeys are slain outside as cats rush in the windows... The point is that dialogue (commentary really) should follow the action. The immediate has to come before the particular.

https://youtu.be/vQRVZaniib0