Suspense Story Checklist
Short, simple sentences to build the suspense?
(E.g. He turned around. She was gone.)
Empty words?
(E.g. someone/something/somewhere)
Character(s) in a lonely, dark place?
(E.g. a cemetery at midnight)
Literary devices?
(E.g. similes, metaphors, rhetorical questions)
Powerful verbs/adjectives?
(E.g. sprinted, horrifying)
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