Creating Tension Between the Reader and the Audience

Mary Robinette: Narrative tension is the tension that characters feel, and contextual tension is what readers feel. She says you can play with where your characters feeling tension and where do you want your reader to be. One of the elements on Mary Robinette's list that we haven't talked much about yet is unanswered questions. The old TV show alias leaned a little too heavily on this particular trope, she said.