Techniques for Creating Suspense in Literary Texts: A Study of Selected Short Stories by John LuangalaFlorence Tembo
these movies hold on to the essence of suspense and ends with a sudden, unpredictable twist. While the viewers are kept wondering what just happened, the credits start rolling. These are the kind of addictive stories that writers today need to take inspiration from. ...
This is a great tool for both plotters and pantsers. Plotters/outliners can use it to outline your scenes early on in the process, and those of you who prefer to just let the words flow and write “by the seat of your pants” can use it later, to make sure the timeline makes sense...
I’ve been reading the stories of Flannery O’Connor in the order she wrote them. I picked up the book because I liked the cover: it’s an illustration of a peacock with elegant black text (I learned from the introduction that O’Connor kept peacocks on her property). O’Connor is a...
In a scene of high suspense or tension, shorter sentences make everything move faster. For example,in Raymond Carver’s short story ‘The Bath’(fromWhat We Talk about When We Talk about Love), after a boy is knocked down by a car, a mood of anxiety as well as numb disbelief in the...
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for revision. By the end you will be in a better position to identify where you’ve left gaps, where you’ve taken too long, and where there are additional opportunities for both nuance and suspense in your character’s journey as they struggle to become (or remain) who they need to ...
For me, at its heart, it’s a story about perception. The knights are confronted with shapes that turn out to be not what they first appear. Each encounter is a small moment of imaginative suspense. Capturing these in the tight rhyme-scheme with the repeating pattern of the knights recalli...
What if you are writing a thriller or a suspense, something that generally has a cast of uber-perfect people? Give them flaws. The recentIron Manmovies did a fabulous job of casting one of “the beautiful people” and making us love him despite. How? Tony Stark comes to realize he’s...