Today I am issuing a challenge to novella and novel writers. I want you to write the best cliffhanger of a chapter ending that you possibly can.
Start off by ensuring that the reader is drawn into the chapter. Use hooks at the beginning of the chapter, and dig them deeper as the chapter continues. By the time you get to the end, find a way to make them hungry and greedy for more. Much more, so much more.
I noticed that some authors don't end a chapter with a cliffhanger, and then satisfy the reader's curiosity and interest in the very next chapter. Some of them do it a little bit later. Whether you take that tact or not largely depends on whether you are writing a thick book or not.
Nevertheless, readers will keep turning the pages, and going on to the next chapter if you will just dig good hooks, and write great cliffhangers.
Are you up to the challenge?
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This sounds like a GREAT idea.
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