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So you’ve figured out your BIG EVENT, and made it believeable and compelling and immediate and threatening. But to really create a great suspense, you new a few TRICKS!  Here’s the first one:   Grab ‘em with a HOOK from the first line.  The suspense Hook is essential for a great story.  Your hook should, set the tone, start with your hero/heroine in action, hint at the stakes and raise a story question.    However, there is one key that every suspense hook needs to have:   Intrigue.  Why? How?  What?  It needs to raise one of these questions right at the beginning.   Here are some of my hooks:  The past had picked the worst time to find her.  (What?) from Flee the Night  Out of all FSB Agent Yanna Andrevka’s bright ideas, masquerading […]