Entries by Rebecca T. Dickson

Writers, we are doing it BACKWARDS

A guest post by Guy Bergstrom Oh, it kills me to say this: we are doing it backwards. Maybe you’re the exception to the rule. Perhaps you’re that rare writer who figured this out 10 years ago. But I doubt it. Most of the writers I know – whether they’re novelists or journalists, speechwriters or […]

Building suspense the WRONG way

Then she said, “But I don’t want to tell the reader the guy’s an ex-con. I want her to figure it out.” “Why?” I said. “Because I want to build suspense.” “But why do you want to hold back that specific piece of information? How does doing that move your story forward? How will the […]