To create suspense, set up a dramatic question. A dramatic question is something like, “Is he going to make it?” or, “Is she going to get the man of her dreams?” By putting your protagonist’s fate in doubt, you make the reader ask, what happens next? To do this well, you ...
I read it over and tried to figure out what it was—it didn’t sound like a poem, but it was too short to be a story. Then it occurred to me that the whole thing was wrapped up in Curtis’s first thought (he could have been nodding ...
Boston's winters are cold, snowy, and long, with the first snowflakes often beginning to fly by late November and measurable snow in April is not unheard of. The range of average winter temperatures can be between 0 and 37 degrees Fahrenheit (-17 to 3 degrees Celsius). Spring is the mon...