#WritersCoffeeClub 28 Dec. How does your prose create and maintain tension?

I always try to remember Alfred Hitchcock's answer …

A journalist asked Hitch in the early 1950s, "sir, how long can the leading couple kiss?"

(Received wisdom back then was if a screen kiss was more than a chaste peck the censors would classify the movie as suitable for adults-only.)

Hitchcock thought for a minute, then said:

"Fifteen minutes—but first I show the killer slipping a bomb under their love seat."