CapitaoCaverna
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I love reading light novels, web serials, fanfiction and all manners of stories posted on the internet, it's something that brings me joy.
A major part such novels is the use of cliffhangers to keep the reader's attention, most of the time it's fine, something to keep my interest in the story and have me come back for more. Sometimes it's annoying, I really want to know what happens later and the cliff leaves me really frustrated, but thats fine too, cliffhangers are made to be annoying.
But, is there such thing as too many cliffhangers?
There is a novel I fell in love with, a very well writen story which is already more than 200k words, I'm invested in the world, I'm invested in the characters and the author post very often.
He has also decided to put cliffhangers in... I think it was the last 6 or 7 chapters. It's at a very important place in the plot and the cliffhangers are things I desperatly want to know about but, every time he does this, it leaves me a little more annoyed with the story, to the point I'm seriously considering dropping it if he continues.
Knowing how to use cliffhangers is an integral part of writing a serialized story, dealing with cliffhangers is an annoying but acceptable part of reading a novel. There must be thousands of ways to create a cliffhanger and they always leave me wanting more, craving the next chapter, tempting me to support the author and get that juicy access to early chapters.
I don't think I have ever experienced something like this, I love the novel but I'm seriously starting to lose interest as the story stops right as it's about to be concluded, every damn chapter! Cliffhangers have always annoyed me but they were effective at keeping my interes but, this time, they're doing the exact oposite.
I still want to know what's going to happen, but I just realised I wasn't even looking foward to this new chapter because I just knew the guy was gonna leave me hanging, again.
Did that ever happen with you guys? A chapter ends at a point which should have you eager for more but, instead, leaves you incredebly irritated and thinking about just dropping the story?
A major part such novels is the use of cliffhangers to keep the reader's attention, most of the time it's fine, something to keep my interest in the story and have me come back for more. Sometimes it's annoying, I really want to know what happens later and the cliff leaves me really frustrated, but thats fine too, cliffhangers are made to be annoying.
But, is there such thing as too many cliffhangers?
There is a novel I fell in love with, a very well writen story which is already more than 200k words, I'm invested in the world, I'm invested in the characters and the author post very often.
He has also decided to put cliffhangers in... I think it was the last 6 or 7 chapters. It's at a very important place in the plot and the cliffhangers are things I desperatly want to know about but, every time he does this, it leaves me a little more annoyed with the story, to the point I'm seriously considering dropping it if he continues.
Knowing how to use cliffhangers is an integral part of writing a serialized story, dealing with cliffhangers is an annoying but acceptable part of reading a novel. There must be thousands of ways to create a cliffhanger and they always leave me wanting more, craving the next chapter, tempting me to support the author and get that juicy access to early chapters.
I don't think I have ever experienced something like this, I love the novel but I'm seriously starting to lose interest as the story stops right as it's about to be concluded, every damn chapter! Cliffhangers have always annoyed me but they were effective at keeping my interes but, this time, they're doing the exact oposite.
I still want to know what's going to happen, but I just realised I wasn't even looking foward to this new chapter because I just knew the guy was gonna leave me hanging, again.
Did that ever happen with you guys? A chapter ends at a point which should have you eager for more but, instead, leaves you incredebly irritated and thinking about just dropping the story?