Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
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How to Use Cliffhangers More Effectively
I use Scrivener and I can't write without it. It has this court board functionality where you kind of create little post-it notes. That's what works for me. I also use AON timeline, A-E-O-N, which is something I've only recently started using. One of the things with a cliffhanger is that the payoff has to be good. Like you cannot threaten to knock someone off a cliff and then it turns out that it's just a slight dip in the ground. Your reader will feel cheated. The way I use cliffhangers isn't so much to get them to go to the next chapter or to make them buy the
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