Okay, so reading a book called Story Trumps Structure and this has confused me a bit.
Suspense: A quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what might happen.
Tension: The element in a novel which evokes emotions such as worry, anxiety, fear and stress on the part of both the reader and characters.
Is this not the same thing, or are they closely related? Is suspense a plot thing and then tension something that works on a character level? Confused.
Suspense: A quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what might happen.
Tension: The element in a novel which evokes emotions such as worry, anxiety, fear and stress on the part of both the reader and characters.
Is this not the same thing, or are they closely related? Is suspense a plot thing and then tension something that works on a character level? Confused.