Read the excerpt from Lee Child’s "A Simple Way to Create Suspense".
Like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, you’ll find out the big answer after a string of smaller drip-drip-drip answers. The big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously.
Which statement by Karin Slaughter shows a similar central idea?
1- I want it to change them, and I want my reader to feel that change through the character, as if it's them.
2- There has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds.
3- I mean, you know, crime is such a great tool for talking about the human condition, and that's what I like to do.
4- If you think about "To Kill a Mockingbird," for instance, some of those courtroom scenes are more tense than any Grisham novel, you know.
Like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, you’ll find out the big answer after a string of smaller drip-drip-drip answers. The big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously.
Which statement by Karin Slaughter shows a similar central idea?
1- I want it to change them, and I want my reader to feel that change through the character, as if it's them.
2- There has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds.
3- I mean, you know, crime is such a great tool for talking about the human condition, and that's what I like to do.
4- If you think about "To Kill a Mockingbird," for instance, some of those courtroom scenes are more tense than any Grisham novel, you know.
