This is what's going to drive your scene forward. It's what's going to give birth to the concrete

questions that you want readers asking throughout each scene and throughout your overarching story.

And if you've structured your scenes correctly, your point of view character will have made a choice

in the previous scene that resulted in the consequences they now must act on.

So you might already know your character's initial single based on the work you did in the previous scene.

Welcome to the Fiction Writing Made Easy Podcast. My name is Savannah Gilbo and I'm here to help

you write a story that works. I want to prove to you that writing a novel doesn't have to be overwhelming.

So each week I'll bring you a brand new episode with simple, actionable, and step-by-step strategies

that you can implement in your writing right away. So whether you're brand new to writing or more

of a seasoned author looking to improve your craft, this podcast is for you. So pick up a pen and let's

get started. In today's episode, we're going to talk about the five questions your reader shouldn't

have to ask both the start of your story and at the beginning of each one of your scenes.

And I wanted to do an episode on this because I've been seeing a lot of drafts lately where the

author is creating false suspense rather than raising meaningful questions in the reader's mind.

So instead of getting readers curious about specific things that matter, I see writers with

holding basic information from the readers in an effort to peak their curiosity and that just

doesn't work. So although the intention is good, it's the execution that isn't quite working.

Now I say the intention is good because you do need to get readers asking questions to hook them

into your story or into each one of your scenes. When they ask questions, they're going to read forward

to find out the answers, right? But you don't want them asking the wrong type of questions or being

so confused that they stop reading all together. So that's what today's episode is about. We're

going to talk through the five questions your readers should never have to ask at any point in

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