Cliffhangers
on April 20, 2006
A couple months ago I wrote about “hooking” . . . how the first line or paragraph is crucial. But what about cliffhangers? How the author ends a chapter or keeps the story moving with a series of ups and downs so that you 1) don’t want to put down the book, and 2) if you have to put down the book, you can’t wait to pick it up again. I think the first part of creating that “I can’t wait to pick up this book again” is the characters–you feel like you know them, you want to find out… Read More