Yesterday, I said I would use some Big Events from popular books and movies… I changed my mind. I think it might be easier to explain if I …
The Big Event…make it personal!
The last two weeks we talked about the key to creating a suspense is the big EVENT that awaits the characters – either a positive or negative event that looms …
The Big Event: Make it Believable
For some reason this didn’t post last week – sorry for keeping you all in suspense! Last week, e talked about the Big Event in writing a suspense, and how you …
The Big Event (the key to writing a suspense pt 1)
I only had one job: get literary agent Sandra Bishop to the airport. We had spent the weekend teaching together at a private writing seminar in the middle of Minnesota, …
Peripheral Plotting – a trick to widening your suspense plot
You need to employ some Peripheral Plotting! Peripheral Plotting is the technique of pulling in ancillary elements and using them to create more tension in your plot. Ideally, they will …