So writers are taught to focus on ingredients and their combination. they're told they should create attractive, sympathetic characters, so that readers will care about them deeply, and then to plunge those characters into situations of continuing peril, the descent into which is the mixing and stirring, and the duration and horrors of which are the timing and temperature.     what is the central idea of the passage? writers must always break the rules when writing a suspenseful story. writers must follow the rules when writing a suspenseful story. writers are often taught a specific method of creating suspense.

writers are often taught a specific method of creating suspense  

Explanation:

In the first lines of the text, shown in the question, we can see that the central idea of the text is "writers are often taught a specific method of creating suspense". This is because at the beginning of the text the author speaks that writers are taught to focus on ingredients and their combination and shows that there is a type of characters used to attract readers to this type of literature. This shows that the author wants the reader to know that there is a specific method writers use to create suspense in their stories and lure the reader into this suspense.

the answer is d: message a character's thoughts