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Old 12-11-2012, 07:30 AM   #2
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Since you ask I think there are a variety of approaches to create narrative pull/flow/MDQ(major dramatic question)/whatever-you-want-to-call-it

One is the 'end the chapter with a question or cliff-hanger' -- this is very evident in Edgar Rice Burroughs work.

Some writers can do it properly and subtly(or not) and other can't. I think the more important thing rather than relying on this sort of 'trick' at the end of chapters is to gradually and continually resolve and reveal new questions/information that is relevant to the story/plot and keeps the reader asking 'and then what?' which will keep them reading. If the reader is not asking themselves these questions or even unconsciously wondering what happens next, they will throw the book across the room. (and hopefully it's not an iPad that they throw).
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