Asking Questions

One of the things that writers need to learn is how to get readers to ask the right questions. You as the writer should know at every step what you want the reader to need to know. This keeps the reader turning pages.
The kinds of questions you don’t want the reader to ask are things like:
1. What is going on?
2. Who is this?
3. Why should I care?
4. How could that possibly happen?
The kinds of questions you want a reader to ask are more along the lines of:
1. Ooh, I wonder if that’s going to turn out to mean something?
2. I wonder why that character is doing that?
3. I wonder if that’s going to turn out to be the villain?
4. How do these things tie together?
5. That’s weird—I wonder if it will be explained later on.
6. This character is horrible—I wonder if I’ll ever understand why she does what she does.