How Do Writers Create Suspense

We have all felt suspense at many points in our lives. Some more than others. Suspense is a great feeling in my opinion. Suspense can lead you to endless minutes, hours, months of overthinking. And over thinking itself is a suspense. Scary movies cause suspense and make you sweat and be all shaken up and jumpy. In “August Heat”, the story starts of with a man named james and the narrator starts to explain his life. James is an artist. He lives comfortably with what he does and what he earns. One day James gets and idea and starts to draw. He draws a fat man with an expression of unsettled and scared. One he is finish he goes outside and goes to a Monumental Mason type of job and he see a person. The man turns around and James sees that it's

Weather is also a great way of leading to suspense. In “How do Writers create suspense?” it states that “foreshadowing is the use of hints to suggest events later in the plot. A horror writer may use foreshadowing to suggest a frightening event that awaits a main character.” the weather can be foreshadowing the dark aspect of a suspending plot. If it’s a sunny day it might lead to a great thing on the plot and a great thing for the character. Foreshadowing in general can lead to the mood of the plot or what will happen in the plot. For “August Heat” the story creates a haunting suspense Foreshadowing in what is my opinion that james, the main character in “August Heat”, will die because in in the story while the fat man named Mr. Atkinson is carving the head stone, james reads “SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ JAMES CLARENCE WITHENCROFT/ BORN JAN. 18TH, 1860/ HE PASSED AWAY VERY SUDDENLY ON AUGUST 20TH, 19-” i assume that this is foreshadowing James death. Also the whole plot is creating suspense because how would Mr. Atkinson know that james was coming into his shop while he was carving a headstone with his full name, as well as his birth

One way to Withhold Information is to include a narrator who is not trustworthy: he or she may not be trying to manipulate the reader.” (source 1) in “August Heat” the narrator detains the information of what James drew. “ i began to draw. So intent was i on my work that i left my lunch untouched, only stopping work when the clock of St. Jude struck four. The final result, for a hurried sketch, was, i felt sure, the best thing i had done.” The Narrator doesn't tell us what he drew, it just tells us how it is and how good it was for a quick sketch. This adding suspense to the