THE BLOOD-CURDLING SHADOW

Watching TV instead of reading books is actually good for your brain! The one weird trick publishers love, and authors hate, for automatically inserting cliffhangers into books.

Oct 10, 2016

Art, Culture

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Background: Some stories make amazing use of the end-of-chapter “cliffhanger” to keep readers turning pages. Even a mediocre work can be made compelling if there is a pressing need to resolve each chapter’s mystery before the reader can put the book down. The trick, of course, is to continually insert mysteries / dramatic cliffhangers throughout…