Craft Talk: Pacing

“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last,” Oscar Wilde and many others have given us these small pieces of enlightenment, suspense is hated yet yearned for at the same time. Suspense is waiting for a decision or outcome to happen. Suspense makes everyone who reads it enchanted by it as if it were magic. If it's a book, they cannot stop reading if it is a film they cannot stop watching. People are engrossed by anticipation while trying to figure out what is lurking around the corner with suspense. The three most suspenseful texts I have read this unit are Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher, “Let ‘Em Play God” by Hollywood Reporter and “Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Two Kinds of Suspense All Authors Should Be Aware Of” by Victoria Grefer. I’m going to demonstrate you in the following three paragraphs how the texts show you things, but also leave you guessing.

Jackson does this by setting a pace for the story and keeping to it, as well as being highly detailed throughout the story. By setting a pace for the story, readers are able to follow along easily as the events flow from one to the next smoothly. While the pace does pick up towards the end, as it reaches the climax, this acceleration of pace is gradual and helps add to the smooth transitions of events. Jackson also adds to the structure of the story by keeping the consistent habit of thoroughly detailing the ongoing events of the story. Readers see this from the very beginning with the descriptions of the summer setting to the types of stones the children were gathering. Additionally, the narrator names the many characters of the story, which, while not delving into each characters development, it does help the reader connect and establish a sort of realism of the story. Overall, the smooth pace and consistent descriptions helps create a well-structured story that helps create connections for the

Suspense is also an important part of a story. If there is no suspense in the story, the reader wont want to keep reading your story, they’ll say it’s boring. Suspense keeps this from happening. You make the story exciting so the reader can continue reading. In the story the suspense is that Rainsford is trapped on an island with nowhere out and Zaroff is coming to get him! The author needs to have suspense to keep readers

How do authors write stories that make you want to read on? This is called suspense. Authors use different kinds of suspense techniques to keep the reader engaged in the story. The short story, “Lather and Nothing Else,” by Hernando Tellez is about a barber who has a hard time deciding whether or not to kill Captain Torres, the rebel executioner. The barber thinks that killing the Captain will make him a murderer, but a hero at the same time. Hernando Tellez creates suspense by foreshadowing, showing the character’s thoughts, and by using descriptive words.

One example of suspense in “The Monkey’s Paw” by Jacobs is created through setting. For example in the very beginning, it says “the night was cold and wet”, (Jacobs, 1). This example adds suspense because it sets the mood of the story and gives the story a gloomy and dark feel. Also, it is night and sometimes bad things can happen at night. Another example of suspense through setting is when a conversation starts amongst the Whites. Mr. White says “hark at the wind”, (Jacobs, 7). This is showing how the wind is loud and noisy. Lastly, when the Whites are talking about how they had to wait for Sergeant Major Morris because they live so far out with only one neighbor. This is showing suspense through waiting and with the waiting comes

For example, when the audience learns that Somesh dies, it is very shocking because there was no back story, and the author was writing the story as if it were to have a happy ending, Somesh and Sumita were just beginning to fall in love. When the author abruptly breaks the audience’s hearts, she then goes back to explain what happened to Somesh. Doing this puts the audience on an emotional rollercoaster and captures the reader’s attention, drawing them deeper into the story. The author does not always use this skipping ahead wisely; it can be confusing at times and catches the reader off guard. It forces the audience to go back and reread until they understand what she is

Ever wonder what’s going to happen next in a story? Suspense is that literary element and it’s used in almost all cases of writing. Some authors use a lot of it to build up their stories, others, not so much. Ray Bradbury, an American author and screenwriter was one of those authors who used suspense to build up the tension and develop the plot of his stories. From beginning to end, genre to genre, suspense can be found all over his work. “A Sound of Thunder”, “The Veldt”, and “The Pedestrian” are just three examples of Bradbury’s work where he uses suspense all over the text to keep the reader on the edge of their seat and wondering what’s going to happen next.

Whilst reading the story you will feel like it has gone by fast. This has to do with Bacigalupi's writing. He writes in a very fast paced way, but when he needs to slow down and focus on something he will. He also writes with a lot of figurative language which creates a picture of what is happening in the reader's

The first way Edgar Allan Poe keeps the reader in suspense by the conception of time. Poe makes time move two different way: slow and fast in certain parts of the story. A sluggish part in the story is demonstrated in this quotation: “I undid the lantern cautiously – oh so cautiously.” A demonstration of the time being accelerated follows: “It grew quicker and quicker, louder and louder every instant.” These examples cause the reader to read carefully. When the pace picks up the reader reads faster as if they are hearing the man talk. This is how Poe distinguished time.

The author uses pacing throughout the story to help the reader connect to the story. In the story

As a whole, the exposition is used by Richard Connell as a means of creating suspense because its pace is slowed down to a point that leaves readers waiting in suspense for what will happen next but with it still moving enough to prevent it from getting too boring.

One of the first literary devices that is easily noticeable is suspense this is it what keeps the reader wanting more. When Al said “You can change history, Jake. Do you understand that? John Kennedy can live.” (King 111). Jake replies with huge doubts, “What if it went wrong?” ……. “What if I managed,……., to stop it from happening and made things worse instead of better? What if I came back

Uses: Pacing reflect the reader’s expectations of how the plot’s end result. Paradox: A phrase that has a never ending meaning.

Did you know that the setting of a text can assist with the accelerating plot? In the texts "Zoo" by Edward Hoch and "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" by Rod Serling, the setting of the text drives the plot. In the text "Zoo," the changing of the setting allows the author to write about the way each species view each other. The setting for "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" aids the plot by showing how the aliens had set up all the neighbors on Maple Street just by shutting off all the power.

In one sense, the temporal process of experiencing this story is like that experienced in reading any story. There is nothing remarkable about the fact that we are in suspense throughout the story, led through the action, ignorant as