roane72:writerofscreen:Suspense, Horror and Mystery Genre Differences InfographicOh this is interest
roane72:writerofscreen:Suspense, Horror and Mystery Genre Differences InfographicOh this is interesting! (And I totally get why suspense is my jam now, both as a writer and a reader.)Most of these three genres combine all three elements in some way as well, now that I think about it. Mystery often includes the element of suspense as in “can we stop them before they kill again?? and is the main character in danger too?” And suspense often contains horror–easier to make the threat the main characters face more real if someone else loses to that threat first. And horror really doesn’t work without at least one of the two elements–if you don’t care about the characters, why do you care if they die?Since I’m in the middle of rewriting a suspense novel, definitely going to keep all of this in mind… -- source link