
The 5 Minute Author
Welcome to the award-winning 5 Minute Author, the only short form podcast to get you informed about writing and self-publishing. I’m Sonja Dewing, award-winning creative writer, CEO of Women’s Thriller Writers Association, and happy dog mom to giant puppy Bo. Let’s get started.
The 5 Minute Author
Tips for Writing a Page Turning Thriller
There are techniques for creating thriller books that readers just can’t put down. That page-turning story that they’ll stay up all night to read.
Here are the tips to do just that: Page turning books are those that create suspense. You can do that by having a ticking clock (in other words something bad is going to happen unless the characters solves the problem fast)
show the reader important things that the protagonist doesn’t know (that can come from a point of view of your antagonist) - maybe we see them scheming their evil plans unbeknownst to our hero or heroine...
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