Narratives are about the resolution of problems.
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.