Pack a Christian dramatic, spiritual, and emotional punch with your story!

Novelist Krista Wagner presents a story-structure guide for writers to explore and create a world of Christian dramatic suspense. Using one of her stories as a template, she walks you through how to craft a tension-infused story that hits all the reader's expectations. In this reader-friendly book, Wagner introduces the Christian dramatic suspense genre and then shows you how to:

* Create a compelling novel by establishing and maintaining the facets of this genre throughout your story, including the pivotal plot points like: riveting red herrings and persuasive peak tensions, dead on pacing, dynamic and functional setting and tone, and tantalizing twists.

* Create irresistible characters with internal and external conflicts, believable flaws, and tension-infused dialogue.

* Test a character's faith, delicately handling the hard truths of life, capturing the spiritual struggle, and articulating victory over despair/adversity.

* Keep the reader tied into the story without being preachy or author intrusive.

Wagner provides commentary on the various aspects, themes, and tropes of the genre as she takes you on a journey through one of her Christian dramatic suspense novels (Intent: Deadly Secrets) to make the experience concrete and hands-on. At the end of each chapter, you will find an exercise specially designed to implement the various facets in your own work such as increasing tension, crafting complicated twists, externalizing a character's thoughts, and developing a believable character arc.