Suspense Writing Guide

Do you want to write thrilling thrillers? Horrifying horrors? Suspenseful....suspense stories? This guide offers roughly 20 pages of super-specific advice and guidance on how to ramp up tension and write more suspenseful stories.

Some things you'll encounter include:

• Why readers enjoy suspense
• The distinction between conflict and tension
• The five elements of suspense, and how they can be applied to storytelling
• How to play fair with your audience
• How to build tension at a sentence level using rhetorical strategies