Friday, October 25, 2013

Suspense

Read Mark 10-12

Mark 10:33 "Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:"

Suspense is when we wait for something we know will happen to occur. It could be something pleasant, like waiting for the surprise birthday party to begin with the arrival of the birthday boy.

We can build suspense in our writing using anticipation of various events to build interest in our readers. We can use that kind of suspense, even in our manuscripts that aren’t mysteries or thrillers.

But usually suspense refers to certain genres. In those cases we build suspense by showing things like a gas leak to build suspense in our readers that someone is going to do something to spark a fire, maybe even an explosion to go along with the gas leak.

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