Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
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How to Use Cliffhangers to Tell a Story
A lot of books will be like, and you open the door and then stop. That's an annoying cliffhanger. I want your cliffhanger to be. He opens the door andThen you tell me something. So most of the cliffhangers I use actually from book to book makes a very big fundamental change that allows me to tell the story with a different set of rules. My short stories all seem to take a form of a bell curve, open rising action, climate, climax, day and a while. What are some other forms or techniques I can use to bring variety without increasing my work count?
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