Incanus
Auror
As I understand it, cliffhanger chapter endings are generally considered a good thing. I’m wondering, however, if this might be one of those things that qualify as ‘too much of a good thing’.
In my novel WIP, I’m writing pretty short chapters, I’d estimate that there could be around 60 when it’s all done, for a medium-short length novel. I keep finding myself ending chapters at a dramatic point, in the middle of scenes, or in the middle of action. I’ve ended every single chapter this way so far.
So I’m wondering what you folks think. Am I overdoing it? Would you be annoyed by this? Or is this actually a decent way of encouraging ‘page-turning’? Would it start becoming predictable (not the story itself, or the different instances of the cliffhangers, but merely the pattern)?
In my novel WIP, I’m writing pretty short chapters, I’d estimate that there could be around 60 when it’s all done, for a medium-short length novel. I keep finding myself ending chapters at a dramatic point, in the middle of scenes, or in the middle of action. I’ve ended every single chapter this way so far.
So I’m wondering what you folks think. Am I overdoing it? Would you be annoyed by this? Or is this actually a decent way of encouraging ‘page-turning’? Would it start becoming predictable (not the story itself, or the different instances of the cliffhangers, but merely the pattern)?