Unlock the Secrets of Cliffhangers: How Writers Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat
1. Continue the momentum
When you create momentum in your book, readers feel like something is always happening, driving the story forward. You want them to feel a sense of movement.
A cliffhanger is the ideal place to jump the story to a different character, setting, or timeline—this delays the outcome and keeps your reader in suspense. In most cases, you should take advantage of this and make a jump.
A story is woven of threads: character threads, setting threads, theme threads, plot threads, time threads.
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