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Look. It's cliche. But I lovelove a haunted house "is it ghosts or not" type of suspense 😂😂 even when you know it's definitely forreal haunted, I love the journey of creepy unfolding!!

I'm a huge horror reader, but I also adore a good heist story. Adding romance to either genre - or mixing all 3! - are my fave stories.

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#Sustember: The claustrophobia of narrative in these is where I feel the "suspense" tone creep in, and the setting is often a contributor to this feeling. Trapped in an old house (or castle) is a classic horror trope for a reason!

#Sustember: I'm not a big reader of true suspense like spy fiction or horror, but I love old gothic romance where the setting is a big contributor to atmosphere: Jane Eyre, Rebecca...

I've recently completed a Dracula re-read for pleasure, and a Frankenstein re-read for school (medical ethics)

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Mystery. It isn't close.

I can get into other stuff on a case by case basis, but murder mystery and court drama are two of my first genres and they remain my heart

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I honestly couldn’t tell you. I’m a pantser: If I happen upon suspense, well then I happen upon suspense 🤷🏻‍♀️

#Sustember I’d say this is about anticipating the small action that will trigger The Big Catastrophic Event. The Button (Matheson) is certainly the textbook example: Mrs Lewis going about her day while the button that will kill someone waits for her.

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The well written kind is my cheeky answer.

I 💜 a good angsty romance. But any book that knows when to release the pressure & when to build it up is going to get me reacting (that's a good thing, usually. Honestly, if I'm yelling at your book, you're probably doing something right)

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It depends. I like a mystery I can solve along the way too, like a Sherlock Holmes story.

But I do love cosmic horror, where it's not quite suspense of what's happening but rather knowing that Cosmic Horror as a genre punishes curious characters.

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As I tend to do satirical or comedic, I often hit a major piece of action or tension and then a needed moment of comic relief.

I like to bury it in the comedy sometimes. Like a crab in sand, just a pinch. I do love a "stinger" at the end of a scene too.

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I tend to accidentally litter the world with Chekhov's Guns. I often don't know what they are until they fire.

As a discovery writer, I feel like the story is smarter than I am and once my pattern recognition kicks in then I go: Oh, that's why I wrote that!

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I deeply enjoy the romantic suspense that builds up before a kiss especially first kisses. That beautiful moment of stomach twisting suspense before the characters lips touch. 😍😍😍 Im a sucker for a good first kiss. (Which is really funny because I did a bad job building the suspense

My answer, #Sustember — I absolutely love to read slow burn psychological horror, the stuff that doesn't get overtly gory to keep you on the edge of your seat. Bonus if there's a little bit of humor woven through.

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We talked about writing suspense yesterday, but most writers are also readers! Tell me -- what is your favorite kind of suspense to read?

Mystery? Tension in romance? The mounting tangled web of horror?

Tell us!

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I'm a slow burn writer, so while I do weave suspense throughout the whole story, it starts with just thread here, a thread there. And then we hit the midpoint, and suddenly there's a whole tangle of it to take us through the end of the book 😂

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I don't know that I have a favourite time. This is one of those "the needs of the plot dictate what I do" moments. There have been times where I've cut a moment because it wasn't working, or added one without realizing it because that's where the plot/characters were going.⬇️