Whether you're primarily a verbal or written storyteller, you can never take the attention of your audience for granted. Every sentence should make them want to hear the next. Suspense is one of the tools in your storytelling toolkit to achieve this.

By my book, intrigue and suspense are different levels of the same thing: making the reader curious to know what comes next.

This episode offers practical tips for lacing suspense into your stories. The first idea we cover is specificity. The second idea is tense. And the third idea is that your suspense should be unstated.

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