A distinction worth keeping straight as you draft:

There's what's true in your story — the facts of the world — and there's what each character believes is true. They're not the same, and the space between them is where most of your tension lives. Dramatic irony, secrets, the slow reveal, the unreliable narrator: all of it depends on the reader knowing something a character doesn't, or the reverse.

The hard part is holding both at once across a whole book.

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