Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

You coming or not?" he repeated impatiently.I was going to say no. But then, glancing at the curtains, I thought, it's probably no more spooky out there in that cemetery than it is here in my own bedroom!

The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!!