: Re: Problems about making a story suspenseful I've been writing my first story for almost one year, and I am facing problems in working on suspense and that's why I'm slowing on it..I just present

@Kristi637

You have to realize that we do many types of writing for a book, and only some of those are meant for the reader. What you're doing right now is called worldbuilding. It's a very important part of your process, but it's only the first step. Once you completely understand all your characters, settings and plot, choose a point-of-view character, and go back through the story, only writing into the final book the things that the character personally observes or experiences.
You'll also want to give that character strong goals and desires, make sure he or she is growing and changing through the events, and conceal some information from them. That will lead to a suspenseful book. If this part of the process doesn't seem clear, I recommend Story Genius as a good resource that can help you plot out a character-driven throughline.

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