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THE SUPER-SECRET WAY TO CREATE SUSPENSE IN YOUR STORY

By: K.M. Weiland

If you’re a writer, or aspire to become one, you know part of your homework is to study suspense.

After all, suspense is what readers (particularly mystery and thriller readers) look for in a book. The American Heritage Dictionary tells us such readers want “the condition of being suspended.” They want to experience the “anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation.”

In Stephen King’s The Shining, will Danny and his mother Wendy escape being murdered by father/husband Jack Torrance? Can you figure out which character in Murder on the Oriental Express committed the murder? Was anyone in the first audience at Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho prepared for the final revelation?

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. An Easy Fix for a Tighter Point of View | Writers In The Storm Blog http://ow.ly/tOJXb
2. Earning the Authors a Say - Porter Anderson http://ow.ly/tORrd
3. Karen Woodward: A Pattern of Character Emotion http://ow.ly/tORBw
4. Insecure Writer's Support Group: Create Realistic Characters by Studying Human Behavior http://ow.ly/tORIq
5. Writing a Premise Statement for Your Book: Inner and Outer Story Synopsis and Why It Helps Get You Published http://ow.ly/tORWR
6. The Super-Secret Way to Create Suspense in Your Story - Helping Writers Become Authors http://ow.ly/tOSdj
7. Do Free Promotions Really Work? - BookBub Unbound http://ow.ly/tOXmb
8. 3 Online Profiles Every Author Must Have (but not facebook or twitter) | Glenn Miller http://ow.ly/tOYGw
9. The Rocket Science Behind Going Viral - infographic ~ Digital Information World http://ow.ly/tP05u
10. How To Make Awesome Social Media Content | Social Media Today http://ow.ly/tP0mw
11. The Kill Zone: Key Ways to Layer Depth Into Your Scenes http://ow.ly/tP0EF
12. 3 Tips for Skipping the Boring Parts | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author http://ow.ly/tP0UO
13. BookMarketingBuzzBlog: Writers & Their Legacy: A Lesson From Jimmy Carter http://ow.ly/tP10E
14. Microsoft Replaces Office Web Apps With Office Online http://ow.ly/tP1hX
15. How to Write for a Living | The Passive Voice | http://ow.ly/tP1rl 

Happy writing and running, Kathy