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Hi!
I came to this forum because last weekend, I tried to write a short Sci-fi-thriller-horror-tension story. (I don't quite know how to describe it O )
I was facing a few problems with it. I'm not surprised, as I wrote it as a writing excercise, but here are some things I like to ask about. How do/would you solve them?
1. Making the world mundane, but not boring.
In longer stories, you can more easilly show that the world is a lot like ours. In a short story, I find it harder. I have the MC go to work, and show that he has a routine, but I'm not sure if that's enough.
2. Varying tension.
I have a hard time resolving tension once I'm a bit further in the story. First, it's fine. The MC gets hit by a car, gets annoyed by it, and goes back to normal life. Later, he sees a person that just disappears, gets quite freaked out, and from then on I feel like it's just building up tension, never really releasing it untill the end. What tricks do you use to release tension?
3. Leaving the reader with a nagging feeling.
Just in general, I want the reader to question the world we live in and our own technology. How to you manage to leave a question with the reader? Any tips?
Thanks for reading! I hope anyone can give me tips on this. I want to improve my short story tension writing, as that is a genre I'm not familiar with.
I came to this forum because last weekend, I tried to write a short Sci-fi-thriller-horror-tension story. (I don't quite know how to describe it O )
Because the questions might be specific, here's a summary:
The main character lives in a world that is slightly ahead of us when it comes to technology. They have something in their brains that controlls what they get to see, remember etc. and these implants are controlled by their work place, the government and whoever else. They don't know about them.
The implant of the MC gets buggy, and he starts to see weird things (people appearing and disappearing. That kind of stuff)
Not knowing about the thing, he thinks he is going mad.
I was facing a few problems with it. I'm not surprised, as I wrote it as a writing excercise, but here are some things I like to ask about. How do/would you solve them?
1. Making the world mundane, but not boring.
In longer stories, you can more easilly show that the world is a lot like ours. In a short story, I find it harder. I have the MC go to work, and show that he has a routine, but I'm not sure if that's enough.
2. Varying tension.
I have a hard time resolving tension once I'm a bit further in the story. First, it's fine. The MC gets hit by a car, gets annoyed by it, and goes back to normal life. Later, he sees a person that just disappears, gets quite freaked out, and from then on I feel like it's just building up tension, never really releasing it untill the end. What tricks do you use to release tension?
3. Leaving the reader with a nagging feeling.
Just in general, I want the reader to question the world we live in and our own technology. How to you manage to leave a question with the reader? Any tips?
Thanks for reading! I hope anyone can give me tips on this. I want to improve my short story tension writing, as that is a genre I'm not familiar with.