The Creation of Suspense

 Author's Note:Some great ideas for creating suspense in writing pieces.

Imagine a book that was so suspenseful you couldn’t stop reading it. Something you couldn’t put down even if your life depended on it. In the book The Killing, by Robert Muchamore, the author creates much suspense you will never want to put the book down. Muchamore creates suspense in his novels using realism,  imagery, and cooperation.

Realism is the fabric used in the blanket of suspense. Bringing realism into his novels, Muchamore creates a colossal amount of suspense in every page. Real life conversations between FBI agents and demonstrating inside jobs makes you feel as if you were an undercover agent yourself. With the realism of the government floating around in the air, it would seem as if you were watching the six o’ clock news report. Imagery also plays an important part in the way Muchamore creates suspense.

Imagery is the thread in the woven blanket of suspense. The way Muchamore pictures the sturdy, grumpy FBI agents and the victims who are paralyzed with fear makes the book all the more suspenseful. How the crime and hit-and-run scenes are captured are astonishing and will make you regret ever putting this book down. Every little detail in this book is captured to perfection for readers who are interested to see the suspense included in every day lives. Cooperation created throughout the book by the characters adds even more suspense to the novel.

Cooperation is the needle used to put the blanket together. When characters rely on each other in tough situations it creates even more suspense in the book. When there’s a double agent who has been trusted with important documents or an argument about whether the evidence is right or not brings much suspense into the book. Relying on others thinking there your friends but really are evil makes you turn page after page in this book.

Cooperation, imagery, and realism are tools that Robert Muchamore uses to conjure suspense in his novels. In The Killing the suspense is of such colossal amount that it can be hard to put the book down. With the use of these tools, Muchamore has created a woven blanket of suspense.