Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

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Dear Fellow Writer, Greetings and felicitations on this fine Friday. Did you know that a third of all traditional book sales are now ebooks? That means 'real' publishers are no longer the  alternative  to digital publishing because we're all playing the same game. And did you know there are, for the first time in history, more self-published millionaires than there are traditionally published millionaires? The times they are a-changing'. It's no longer a case of whether being a bookstore author or an independent digital writer is better or worse than one or the other. It's now a case of:  What's right for your career? How best can you reach your readers? Today we look at creating suspense in your fiction manuscript. Creating Suspense in Fiction Basically, any degree of suspense is created by the delaying of an assumed outcome. In real life this is a haphazard affair, brought about by fate and/or circumstance. However, in fiction, suspense is most ...