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Random thoughts and insights from Ken Baker - Children's author, freelance writer, husband and father of five. Ken Baker is the author of the picture books BRAVE LITTLE MONSTER (Sept. 2001) and OLD MACDONALD HAD A DRAGON (Coming Fall 2012). He also writes early readers, chapter books, and YA novels.
1. Writing Tip: Raising Plot Tension

Writing Instruction Video

Sometimes beginning writers struggle to engage and maintain the reader's interest in their stories. Sometimes this happens because the protagonist solves plot conflicts too easily or too early in the story. Sometimes it happens because the opposite occurs, that it seems to take forever for the hero to solve the problem. This video demonstrates a writing technique that helps writers strike just the right balance in order to raise plot tension, thereby engaging and maintaining the reader's interest.



For teachers interested in using this video as part of creative writing lessons, the instruction video along with slide handouts that can be used to review the raising tension technique can be found at www.kenbakerbooks.com/raising-plot-tension.html.

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