Crafting Suspenseful Narratives: Techniques and Examples
Experience the art of crafting suspenseful narratives through noun phrases, senses descriptions, personification, and more. Dive into examples like the eerie tale of Sarah facing the unknown in a mysterious hole. Unleash your creativity to engage readers and keep them on the edge of their seats. Enhance your writing with proven tips from Victoria Smith on making your stories truly suspenseful.
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Not too tricky - using the skill in short sentences. WTS Suspense Narrative First, watch the video! Suspense narratives uses the skills below to engage the reader: - Noun phrases and expanded noun phrases - Using the senses to describe - Expanded noun phrases - Adverbials - Personification How to make your writing suspenseful - Victoria Smith Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-make-your-writing-suspenseful-victoria-smith What makes a good horror story? Hideous monsters and fountains of blood might seem like a good place to start, but as horror author H.P. Lovecraft wrote, The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. Writers harness that fear not by revealing horrors, but by leaving the audience hanging in a state of suspense. Victoria Smith gives some tips for adding suspense to your writing. Lesson by Victoria Smith, directed by Silvia Prietov. Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible. Carlos Castillo, Sage Curie, Ana Maria, Vignan Velivela, Ibel Wong, Ahmad Hyari, A Hundred Years, Eden Sher, Rikke Borgaard, IamJo , Travis Wehrman, Minh Tran, Louisa Lee, Kiara Taylor, KFerg, Hoang Viet, Nathan A. Wright, Joren Schiks, , Milad Mostafavi.
An example of a Suspense Narrative! When and where The moon was a strange kind of brightness, an unnatural light hung in the clouds. The night was grey. The large ,derelict house loomed over her. Sarah felt threatened. At that moment she realised that she was alone. For the first time ever, no friends, no family were there to tell her it was going to be ok. There she stood, staring into the hole in the ground that just opened up before her like a sinkhole to hell. All was quiet...all was still. Sarah took baby steps closer, being careful not to lose her sure footing. Shuffling as close as she dared to, she peered cautiously into the hole. All was black. The abyss that she faced appeared bottomless. She shuddered as she thought about the depth of the darkness. As Sarah stared into the hole astonished, she felt woozy and dizzy. It was that feeling people get at the edge of really tall building. It made her feel uneasy and frightened. However, this is not what Sarah should have feared just then. At that moment, Sarah would have felt much more uneasy and frightened, if she had realised what was lingering beneath and staring back at her... Expanded noun phrase used to describe the moon. Simile used to compare the sinkhole to hell. Advanced vocabulary to engage the reader. Short sentences The author builds a picture of how she is feeling with the use of the words: uneasy and frightened, Punctuation used to build effect.
Look at this picture Answer the 5 W s on the planning document below: What lies behind the Mystery door? When is this happening? What time of day? Who lives there? Why is it mysterious? Where is it? Example Where is it? A mystery door lies at the bottom of a tree. In the forest ... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YA9okk mUhc3PFg3xwHnHQjLlcstMrFNEd754sRWSp NA/edit
The 5 Senses Imagine you are looking at the door at the bottom of a tree. What thoughts are going through your head? You are about to open the door and go inside. Use your senses to describe what you see, hear, feel, smell and taste yes you can taste the damp air, the fear in your mouth etc. What can you see? What can you hear? What can you feel? What can you smell? What can you taste? Examples What I see? At the entrance, I can see a ghostly looking lamp. What can I hear? I could hear people screaming!
Using our senses to write about the picture... Sight (What can you see?) Eg: Infront, I could see a strange house in a tree. Hearing (What can you hear?) Eg: There was trumping inside. Smell (What can you smell?) Eg: The room stunk. Now, click on the link below and complete the section on senses. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YA9okkmUhc3PFg3xwHnHQjLlcstMrFNEd754sRWSpNA/edit
Expanded noun phrases Eg: The green, old door was at the entrance. The words green and old describes the noun: door.. Eg: The house appeared empty and creepy. What are the nouns in the picture? The words empty and creepy describes the house. Tree House Path way Rocks or stones Windows Step Roots Plants Eg: On the inside, the room was dark and cold. The words dark and cold describes the room. Now, click on the link below and complete the section on descriptive language.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YA9okkmUhc3PFg3xwHnHQjLlcstMrFNEd754sRWSpNA/edit
Openers Eg: Slowly, Marty walked towards the creepy, old door. Eg: Shaking, he wondered what to do next. Eg: Marty tripped on a tree root. Now, click on the link below and complete the section on sentence starters..https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YA9okkmUhc3PFg3xwHnHQjLlcstMrFNEd754sRWSpNA/edit
Personification Personification is when an object (often called an inanimate object because it cannot move by itself) is given a human quality. Eg: The tree danced in the wind. The tree is an inanimate object and have been given a human quality: danced What are the nouns in the picture? Eg: The wind sung loudly. Tree House Path way Rocks or stones Windows Step Roots Plants The wind is inanimate object and have been given a human quality: sung Eg: The house stood still. The house is an inanimate object and have been given a human quality: stood.
Model of Learning - First paragraph Suspense 1 of 2 - WTS.mov Read how I have put together all the ideas and skills into the first paragraph. Then, go to the next slide for the second paragraph!
Model of Learning - Second paragraph Suspense 2 of 2 - WTS.mov Now that you have watched the model, using your planning sheet , now write your suspense narrative. https://docs.google.com/document/d/ 1YA9okkmUhc3PFg3xwHnHQjLlcst MrFNEd754sRWSpNA/edit
