: 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

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Suspense is created through anticipation of events outside of characters' control.
Suspense is most common in horror/thriller genres, but generally, suspense can be positive or comedic and be suitable in any kind of plot.
The higher characters' stakes are for the event, the bigger is the suspense. However, the reader must be "invested" in characters in order to feel the suspense.
The more obscure is the event, the bigger is the suspense. If the character is scheduled to be executed by hanging, this is dramatic, but not very suspenseful. But if the character is anticipating a visit by a mysterious horror creature, suspense would be much higher.
The more unstable and fragile current situation is, the bigger is the suspense. A character may build one-story card house or five-story card house, with equal stakes and equal clarity of the expected outcome. In case of a five-story card house, suspense would be higher.

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