Suspense doesn__ always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.
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Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It__ that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.
No, Ben. What I__ asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben__ the driver, right?
If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.
Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.