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Take the Mystery Out of Building Suspense in a Narrative

In teaching writing, one of our goals is to have our writers understand that their readers can be drawn into a story if the writer employs good suspense-writing techniques. In order to help my students learn how to build suspense in their writing, I like to do an exercise called good thing/bad th...

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