Thriller Craft: Propelling Suspense with Driving Questions, Part I
THE DRIVING QUESTIONS:
THE DRIVING QUESTIONS:
This is the second article in a three-part series on how to use driving questions to generate suspense in fiction. You can find the first part of the series here. The series turns to Jack London's story "To Build a Fire" for examples of different kinds of driving questions.
I'm teaching a class on Suspense for Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore Today!
For the last few years I've taught a class every summer as part of the Author's Academy at the Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore. This year the Author's Academy will be virtual to accommodate social distancing.
Learn Suspense writing from Elaine Viets!
OU NEED THESE SUSPENSE WRITING TRICKS!
Some of my readers might know that for years I've been working, when finances permitted, on a documentary about pioneer lesbian playwright Jane Chambers. You can read all about that documentary, and my review of a production of A Late Snow I saw last night, at 8FacesofJane.com
Here is a snippet:
The fourth installment in Michael Niemann's Valentin Vermeulen thriller series was published this week. No Right Way moves Vermeulen's investigatory brilliance out of Africa and into Turkey, a country doing its best to deal with the tidal wave of refugees from the civil war in Syria.