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The awesome co-hosts for the December 4 posting of the IWSG are Ronel, Deniz, Pat Garcia, Olga Godim, and Cathrina Constantine!
December 4 question - Do you write cliffhangers at the end of your stories? Are they a turn-off to you as a writer and/or a reader?
I don’t write cliff hangers at the end of a book...
But rather...
I leave the reader with hope that when the book ends...
There’ll be a second or third book with the same characters.
BUT...
In my EM series...
I do leave cliff hangers at the end of most of my chapters...
My hope is that the reader will be that curious...
And want to continue to the next chapter, and the next, and the next.
When I'm reading a novel it bugs me when a chapter ends...
But the next chapter is not a continuation...
But rather it jumps to another part of the story that doesn’t seem connected...
This is when I appreciate a timeline, a date, or something to string the chapters along.
But then...
I’m a lazy reader, or I have ADD, or my mind wonders...
And I often forget names if they’re not a main character or aren't mentioned enough...
Especially if the names start with same letter, or sound similar
Like: Ellen, Eleanor, Ester, etc...
Then I have to go back and find those characters to refresh my memory.
But then, it’s probably just me.
What about you?
Do you write cliffhangers? Or enjoy them?
Always,
Em-Musing
Merry Christmas!
See you in the New Year!
