Everything You Need to Keep Your Readers on the Edge of Their Seats
From the very first page, your story should grip your readers and never let go! In this intensive 2-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to build and sustain tension that keeps pages turning and emotions high. Using proven techniques drawn from bestselling fiction, we’ll explore the most effective ways to create suspense, deepen reader investment, and craft scenes that demand attention.
You’ll discover how to:
- Plan plot developments that steadily raise the stakes
- Use sentence structure and paragraph pacing to control momentum
- Choose words strategically to heighten emotional impact
Whether you're writing thrillers, romance, fantasy, or drama—tension is what keeps readers hooked. Join us for this live, interactive session and walk away with practical tools to turn up the heat in your writing.
Join our live 120-minute interactive workshop, designed to empower you with the skills needed to build tension and keep readers engaged!
Fiction Writer's
Narrative Tension Workshop
Saturday, July 18th – 8:00 PM ET
$129
$79
- What's Included
- Live 2-hour interactive workshop
- Learn how to make tense scenes that will rip readers through your book.
“Excellent quality, filled with recommendations, advice and content, as promised. There was a LOT more added into it than I was expecting to receive. What an eye opener this was for me!”
–M. R. Hartman, Author
How the Creating Narrative Tension Workshop Works
Step 1
Attend workshop
Join us for a fun, engaging, and insightful workshop and discover the key to establishing maintaining narrative tension throughout your book.
Workshops are held live via Zoom. The link will be emailed to you after purchase, along with additional worksheets to aid you throughout workshop activities.
Workshop Dates & Times:
Saturday, July 18th - 8:00 PM ET
Step 2
Write your scene
Put everything you learned in the workshop to the test and write a scene with your new tension tricks!
Step 3
GO FORTH AND GRIP
Once you finish the Narrative Tension Workshop, you will have a clear understanding on how to add suspense and intrigue to every page of your book.
Everything you need to highten suspense and drama:
Learn what makes tension and how to add it to your story.
See examples of how emotional hooks drive audiences further into your story.
Take a deep dive into narrative conflict and how to transform boring scenes into riveting moments.
Know the basic levels of human stress and how to effectively ratchet up the drama.
Figure out how to use character actions to drive up the suspense.
What our Members Say About Our Courses
I've never felt so welcome and valued in a course before. Both teachers and students were so graceful towards one another from start to finish.
I enjoyed this course very much, and it has helped give me new things to think about when crafting my own work, regardless of genre. Thanks so much for putting it together!
One of the things I most wanted to improve was the scare factor and intense scenes, really building up that fear. And I thought the class helped with that a ton!
