Instead of writing a cliffhanger, think about writing a "teaser" at the end of each chapter. Like the book description lures the reader into the story, the teaser lures the reader into the next plot point.
100% agree about Lost. I loved watching it until the last season when it became obvious they weren't going to resolve any of the cliffhangers they had set up during the entire series.
Your just gonna have to make the book really fast paced then so they keep turning the page expecting an end. Luttke do they know it will leave them hanging
Great, thanks Shaelan. The Lost effect - arghh - only recently got round to watching the whole box-set, spent about half of it saying 'have the writers lost the plot?' - only to get to the end and decide they really did...
Try the series "How to Develop a Book" on Reedsy's channel. It's got a few episodes, but I think the second episode (Characters) covers your question pretty well.
As a kid I read a series where the final line in the final book was 'And hesitated.' It was just extremely weird in many ways. To this day I don't know exactly what was going on at the end. Kind of awesome though. I feel like books have gotten less weird--authors are less willing to write/publishers are less willing to published extremely 'out there' stuff.
I forgot where I've seen this, but some author wrote a false alarm cliff hanger in 5-6 chapters in a row, then wrote another cliff hanger, but made it a real threat catching the readers off guard.
"Blood Moon" ("The Ravenscliff Series" book 3 by Geoffrey Huntington)- I've read it years ago, but as far as I remember, this thing ended on a cliffhanger. I'm not sure if it's going to be continued, but the last one was published like ~15 years ago?
The TV series - Fortitude - uses cliff hangers well, and is even able to dump 'main character' people during plot twists. Done highly successfully I think.
I am having trouble determining where my chapters should start/end. I have such strong inclination to end chapters at a satisfying point (which feel natural to me) that changing that seems rude and the break unnatural. Any advice?
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