You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.The trick is to keep a secret. Or many secrets, even. In Lee Child__ books, Jack Reacher always has a big mystery to crack, but there are a series of smaller mysteries in the meantime, too, a new one appearing as soon as the last is resolved. J.__. Rowling is another master of this technique _ Who gave Harry that Firebolt? How is Rita Skeeter getting her info?The art, meanwhile, the thing that makes __ride and Prejudice_ so superbly suspenseful, more suspenseful than the slickest spy novel, is to write stories in which characters must make decisions. __reaking Bad_ kept a few secrets from its audience, but for the most part it was fantastically adept at forcing Walter and Jesse into choice, into action. The same is true of __reedom,_ or __y Brilliant Friend,_ or __nna Karenina,_ all novels that are hard to stop reading even when it seems as if it should be easy.
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There are a lot of ways for a novelist to create suspense, but also really only two: one a trick, one an art.The trick is to keep a secret. Or many secrets, even. In Lee Child__ books, Jack Reacher always has a big mystery to crack, but there are a series of smaller mysteries in the meantime, too, a new one appearing as soon as the last is resolved. J.__. Rowling is another master of this technique _ Who gave Harry that Firebolt? How is Rita Skeeter getting her info?The art, meanwhile, the thing that makes __ride and Prejudice_ so superbly suspenseful, more suspenseful than the slickest spy novel, is to write stories in which characters must make decisions. __reaking Bad_ kept a few secrets from its audience, but for the most part it was fantastically adept at forcing Walter and Jesse into choice, into action. The same is true of __reedom,_ or __y Brilliant Friend,_ or __nna Karenina,_ all novels that are hard to stop reading even when it seems as if it should be easy.
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