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    Suspense

    Suspense does not mean we have to think in crude melodramatic terms - with someone's life being at stake, some injustice being done, or someone betraying someone else. It simply means the reader should be held in a state of anticipation, always feeling something is about to happen and always eager to find out what it will be. An economical style of writing plays an important part in this, but is not enough on its own. Whatever the nature of the ideas you are working with it is essential to establish a sense of forward momentum right from the start, and to keep up the pressure all the way through. Even the subtlest stories keep the reader wondering 'What will happen next?' A plot is about movement and change and, in however subtle a form, sus

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    or someone betraying someone else. It simply means the reader should be held in a state of anticipation, always feeling something is about to happen and always eager to find out what it will be. An economical style of writing plays an important part in this, but is not enough on its own. Whatever the nature of the ideas you are working with it is essential to establish a sense of forward momentum right from the start, and to keep up the pressure all the way through. Even the subtlest stories keep the reader wondering 'What will happen next?' A plot is about movement and change and, in however subtle a form, su
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    lways eager to find out what it will be. An economical style of writing plays an important part in this, but is not enough on its own. Whatever the nature of the ideas you are working with it is essential to establish a sense of forward momentum right from the start, and to keep up the pressure all the way through. Even the subtlest stories keep the reader wondering 'What will happen next?' A plot is about movement and change and, in however subtle a form, su
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    of the ideas you are working with it is essential to establish a sense of forward momentum right from the start, and to keep up the pressure all the way through. Even the subtlest stories keep the reader wondering 'What will happen next?' A plot is about movement and change and, in however subtle a form, su
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    rough. Even the subtlest stories keep the reader wondering 'What will happen next?' A plot is about movement and change and, in however subtle a form, suspense.

    Structure

    A short story needs a simple structure. There is no room for the complex development of sub-plots we get in most novels, plays, and films. We are dealing with a single important event in a person's life. In my 'First principles' the list of six points gives a simple skeleton structure for a plot, and another useful way of thinking of structure is in terms of:

    before - turning point - after.

    The turning point is a decisive action taken by the central character - before shows the circumstances leading up to that decision, and after shows the consequences.

    When

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