Unlock the Secrets of Cliffhangers: How Writers Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat
You can’t deliver a novel in one huge chunk. Few would start reading such a tome, and no one would finish it.
As readers, we need breaks, breathers, indications of progress as settings or characters change. That’s one reason we structure books into chapters and scenes.
The problem is that readers also see those scene or chapter breaks as a good place to stick a bookmark in it. Life is busy. Sometimes they don’t come back.
Correctly using both halves of the equation in an effective chain of cliffhangers will make your book hard to put down and spur readers to come back if they’re forced to stop reading.



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