Your Readers Love an Element of Suspense. Here’s How to Give it to Them

The element of suspense if something readers love. It may be heavy, and it can also be light, but when you add it into your story, your readers will keep reading until they get to the resolution. And isn’t that what you want?But my non-fiction book on vegetable gardening, or my personal biography doesn’t require the suspense element, does it? Oh, yes it does. But more about that later.Let’s take a look at the two main types of suspense you can use.First there is the ’signpost’ suspense. This is where something happens, or is said, or is described that hints at some outcome, pleasant or unpleasant, in the future. Here is an example:’I was shown into a dimly lit room. On one wall hung a painting. It was grimed with age, but I could make out the shapes of two people, a man and a woman. The man was holding a short sword in one hand, and as I looked, I felt a strange uneasiness creep over me. Why this was so I couldn’t tell just then, but I wanted to leave that room and never come back.’The reader will get the message that something about this painting forbodes ill […]

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