A Curious Question...

[apollinav]

How do you prefer to organize your chapters?

I ask because my brain is ticking over this.

Chapter 8 of TGC is short. I knew it was short (1,200 words or so) and I didn't care to make it longer, because that would be filling it with fluff. Originally it was merged with the previous 'wedding' chapter, but I separated them. Personally I like my chapters to be organized in 'full and complete thoughts' like one would an essay or dear god, a thesis... (I suck at cliffies for that very reason)

But a keen AFF reviewer challenged my thought process on this. I see her point, it's the same day. And it's good mental chew.

So I pose the eternal question, one that has probably been batted back and forth forevah:

How do you prefer to organize your chapters?

Comments

[natasnape.livejournal.com]

I personally prefer what you do with The Gilded Cage. Both for writing and reading, I enjoy full, complete, logical scenes like you. In my opinion, cliffhangers are a cheap device to hold a reader, who might otherwise decide to stop. While I understand that some people could enjoy the additional suspense, I find intriguing plot sufficient to keep me reading. In such cases, cliffies are unnecessary and simply annoying, and in all other cases when a story is not that appealing anyway, a cliffhanger makes me skip following scenes and just check what happens next in the cliffied plot line. Or, in case of WIP fanfics, I stop reading.