See how Rebecca Roanhorse uses time jumps to create suspense in Black Sun.

Follow Jesse Q. Sutanto's model in Dial A for Aunties and use multiple plots to keep your readers engaged.

Learn how Jesse Q. Sutanto hooks readers while launching a complex plot and large cast of characters in Dial A for Aunties.

Discover the plot techniques Laura Dave uses to maximize suspense in her novel.

Learn how to maximize the drama of plot revelations by studying the techniques used by Laura Dave.

See how Laura Dave uses our knowledge of the novel's hook to delay gratification, increase suspense, and turn readers into sleuths.

How do you engage and disrupt genre tropes to hook your readers?

Learn about plot structure and the interplay between internal and external plots through an analysis of Tana French's The Searcher.

How Patchett uses a shuffled chronology to tell a story that is also about the act of telling stories.

Percy offers detailed, distinctive clarifications of common craft advice.

Salesses investigates why and how writing craft rules work, and gives concrete suggestions for how we might think about them differently.

Construct questions that will help you see your novel in new ways.

Learn how to spot possible plot problems in your novel and how to fix them.

What is Chekhov’s gun principle and why do you need to add it to your revision checklist?

Plot reversals can add drama and energy to a plot that is dragging.

Austen turns up the suspense on two long-simmering subplots.

Austen stitches the broken thread of her plot back into the narrative.

See the moment Austen activates a key backstory element to enliven the plot.

Austen provides the dangerous Mrs Clay as a suspenseful subplot, not resolved until the end of the novel.

How and why your characters and plot should work together to create a book that readers can’t put down.