That's what a narrative is.

I set up certain kinds of things,

and then I solve all of the little questions.

I answer all the questions you have in your mind.

With suspense, there's certain questions I don't answer,

and so your natural reaction as a reader is, wait, why?

So there's no reason why suspense

should be specific to movies or television shows or fiction.

You can do exactly the same thing in a work of nonfiction.

You can withhold information for unreasonable periods of time

and leave your audience saying, well, wait a minute.

Why haven't I been told that?

Well, wait a minute.

I know I don't have the whole story.

Why don't I have the whole story?

Because maybe they don't know what they haven't been told,

but they just know that there's something missing.