Writing in One Lesson

My beautiful and talented wife has another post on writing advice from writers to writers. She explains the trick of writing.

http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/95601.html

There is, when you right down to it, only one trick in writing, which she here calls "the trick." It consists of raising the readers expectations, but satisfying those expectations in a logical yet unexpected way. The trick is that anything has more effect if the reader things the opposite is about to happen.

If you only learn ...