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.

The correct answer of which central idea found in A Simple Way to Create Suspense this note refers to is that The basic narrative fuel is always the slow unveiling of the final answer.

The note "Slowly giving readers answers moves story along" means that a writer who intends to create suspense in his or her stories should present answers to possible mysteries or situations created at a slow pace, therefore, slowly unveiling the final answer through hints or clues. Like that, the writer will most likely engage the reader in the story and create suspense. So, the correct answer to which central idea found in A Simple Way to Create Suspense this note refers to is that The basic narrative fuel is always the slow unveiling of the final answer.

The correct answer couldn't be that What almost no one had in 1980 and almost everyone had in 1990 was a remote control because there is no mention of a remote control in the note presented and of what that could bring or not to the development of a story. Hence, that couldn't be the correct answer.

The correct answer couldn't be that Even viewers who knew the answer for sure stuck around, in order to be gratified because, on the contrary, the idea conveyed in the note presented is that the viewer or reader shouldn't be sure of the answer in order to create suspense, but that answers should be given slowly. That is, according to Gary, what moves the story and catches the viewers or readers attention. Therefore, that couldn't be the correct answer.

The correct answer couldn't be that "How do you bake a cake?" has the wrong structure because there is no mention, in the note presented, of specific structures that would be right or wrong, except for the slow unveiling of facts and answers. Thus, that couldn't be the correct answer.

The correct answer is D. The basic narrative fuel is always the slow unveiling of the final answer.