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Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.
~ Cassandra Clare
I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the back of your mind you're aware that there aren't that many pages left. How will it end? Everything can't be wrapped up! This can't end! Then it does, and your heart seems to stop.
~ Kresley Cole
I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
~ Hakan Nesser
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Just recently I did a few reviews for a friend her on WdC - chapter reviews, my favorite. I was saddened by the fact that I had almost nothing to correct, nothing to give any input on. I strolled through the story and enjoyed it a lot. On one hand, it's great that you can find yourself giving reviews on an item which is polished to the max, but on the other, I felt as if I wasn't really needed.
The few beginning chapters had cliffhangers at the end, each one better than the last. The entire story, or as far as I got, kept me on the edge of the seat and I was mesmerized, unwilling to miss a word of it. I wanted to know more and at the same time I squinted my eyes so as not to know the rest of it just yet, but to enjoy the moments I've read about up until then.
Cliffhangers are important to our writing - unless it's the end of the book and I'm stuck wondering what will happen next. They can be minor or major, giving the reader the sense of foreboding and a bit of worry when thinking about what may come next. It keeps us interested in wanting to know even though, at times, we worry that we may not like what we'll be read as the next development.
One thing I've learned over time is, a cliffhanger is only as good as the rest of the chapter or a book. If your plot is moving slow, it won't matter how good a cliffhanger you've attached at the end of it, because the reader will be expecting the same writing next. Keeping a steady pace when writing which will lead to the climax of each chapter and make the reader squirm in their seat, is what you want to see. It's important.
Can you keep your reader on the edge of the seat with your writing?
'Til next time!
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