What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.
Will the reader turn the page?
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.
I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a reader. I'm always trying to find a way to balance characters and theme.
Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they'll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That's the game we play when we're hearing a story unfold. That's part of what sucks us into a movie.
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.