Gary has made this note in his reading notebook. Slowly giving readers answers moves story along. This note refers to which central idea found in A Simple Way to Create Suspense? What almost no one had in 1980 and almost everyone had in 1990 was a remote control. Even viewers who knew the answer for sure stuck around, in order to be gratified. "How do you bake a cake?" has the wrong structure. The basic narrative fuel is always the slow unveiling of the final answer.