StrengthoftheString

A great story is not about giving your audience what they want, but rather, getting them so hooked that they want MORE cliff hangers, near-misses, and generally gripping situations. Think of your story as a string that stretches with the increase in TENSION. You want to stretch is as far as you can so that the reader wonders if and when the BREAK will happen. OR, you can provide a fake BREAK as a momentary distraction from the story. It's about hearing footsteps in the hallway, only to find out it's a wind-up toy banging away against the wall. Then, just as you pick up the toy, someone appears out of the shadows. Woooooooooooooo....scary!

//It was hardly what anyone would expect from a summer camp. The actual ghost story that everyone was talking about actually being true. It was surely just a tale meant to scare campers and keep them from sneaking out that night. Although Dayna tried to reassure herself that it was all a figment of her imagination, what she saw in front of her eyes, only a few metres from the path was going to change her forever...//