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"The suspense — you can't plan your life".
Trump builds the same kind of suspense: you never know what he might say.
In this new novel she has to provide herself with puppets who will be good for three stages of suspense: you must first wonder who is going to be murdered, you must then wonder who is committing the murders, and you must finally be unable to foresee which of two men the heroine will marry.
I do think that such a book would be, as I say, very dull, but it is annoying that our novels, as we do write them, are very selective, spotty, tied to a story and slightly mechanically worked-up climaxes and issues as you do attempt to generate suspense, you do attempt to resolve it.
I didn't read suspense, you see.
And this took me the longest time to figure out, and I still have hard time explaining it, except to say, especially with a show about suspense, you want to put the audience into the viewpoint of the character whose scene it is.
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Let the suspense consume you as you wonder who will win this battle.
I had pictures of divers up everywhere; images of falling, and the beauty of falling; the leap up and the moment of suspense before you start to fall, knowing you'll finally hit the water".
You're kept in a constant state of suspense as you watch various aspects of the plan taking shape — you know that, whatever it is, it's big, but its outlines are unclear until well along in the series.
Patricia Carlon's first principle of psychological suspense -- you are at your most vulnerable when you are alone -- gets a workout in THE UNQUIET NIGHT (Soho, $22), the terrifying story of a woman who is being pursued by a homicidal stalker.
Annabel Pitcher is great at building suspense and you read almost the whole book until you find out who Zoe has actually killed.
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