I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
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I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
Jane Austen is very amusing.
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
I think suspense is a big thing.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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