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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
Three of my biggest annoyances in book:
First, when the writer feels the need to end (almost) every chapter on a cliffhanger. It usually happens with those adventure action thriller type books.
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I used to belong to an author's Yahoo Group and she mentioned once that she'd been taught never to end a chapter on the end of a scene. The idea was that anytime a reader might close your book - and not be at the end - you risk losing them. I find this rather silly. Like I can't close a book at a scene end, just because it's not a chapter end? I'm not
that anal retentive.
One of the authors I read must have been trained by the same person (or read their book/blog/whatever). She ends chapters in places it makes no sense. The middle of a conversation, the middle of an action, it doesn't matter.
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"So, Joe, guess who's coming to dinner?"
Chapter 15
"Who?"
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To me, these are "forced cliffhangers". I imagine they're supposed to create a tension in me that's not able to "close the book" until I turn the page....and then I might get sucked into "one more chapter".