Creating Suspense! with Lisa Jones

Creating Suspense! with Lisa Jones

The SUSPENSE prompt was born when teacher Lisa Jones was in the bathtub, reading THE MIST, by Stephen King. Why did such a dumb-seeming premise (a mist lands on a supermarket in Maine, creating terror and death) result in a book so hard to put down? Lisa pondered. She poured in some more bubble bath. She looked for patterns. She found a three-step method embedded in THE MIST that will bring suspense to your writing about a scary canoe trip, a first date, or a trip to Costco. Suspense is EVERYWHERE in our lives, and should be everywhere in our writing, too, for audiences both literary and genre. Tension matters!