Friday, August 26, 2011

Chapter Endings are More Important than you Think

One of the biggest problems of today is that people are writing books, they send in the book to get published and their lost on these sea of books that's are never read. Obviously something's wrong with your book but these days people are getting published for their creative stories. But you could have an amazing story but your never published... (unless your Vivian Vande Velde with her book: Book of Mordred[the book's dedication]) The trick about this amazing breakthrough of a publication is how it is "running."
One of the best authors who really gets this theory of mine is L.J. Smith. The perfect example would be her Night World series (I found this really annoying only because for example I would like to go to the bathroom but I can't because L.J. Smith ends chapters so dramatically, so cliffhanger awesomeness) that no matter what, I can't go to the bathroom therefore learning that it is IMPOSSIBLE to take a break from her books when a chapter ends.
Parcially why the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare is so popular is because the author has created an amazing story in every way, shape, or form BUT ends the chapters in a can't-stop-reading moments.
In my previous blog post, I talked about how an outline is basically life or death when it comes to writing amazing books. This principle applies to this theory of amazing chapter endings. When you write you HAVE to have a plan BUT this plan has to be VERY fast. Fast as in you can't allow your readers to want to take a break at the end of a chapter. You have to have this plan where you can't have just a coupple amazing "oooh"'s and "awe"'s, the book has to b e filled with awesomeness back to back.
Just for clarification, your book could have this theory but your story is as lame as what a life of a cow is like.
James Patterson has a similar theory to this chapter ending awesomeness. He writes approximately 500 words per chapter. He does this not only to help younger readers keep reading (which has everything to do with my theory on chapter endings), but to help him as a writer and story creator to keep the pace going back to back.
In book reviews, a person would say that the book was never ending; could never get to sleep because it was to awesome, etc. These are signs that the book is just REALLY awesome.
To try to get your book published at all, you could be the smartest kid in your shook, the writer who's been writing since you could even write, read all the time, etc, you could STILL never get published. I critique writers all the time in daily life and on this blog but these authors I read are truly masterminds. To be called a writer (New York Times Bestseller), you have truly earned the title! You have story creating down and you know all the tricks to create amazing fans through theory's (like my chapter ending theory) and even have your own tricks up your sleeve's.
Being an author...it's an art. It is way more than just the writing but so many things that you MUST have all of them. I truly don't know what they'll say exactly, but if you asked a New York Times Bestselling author if their job is EVER easy, they will say "NO" only because there are so many authors ou there, so many creative idea's already thought up that you have to create something new in your own way and mKe it a major hit. You have to be in sinc with your audience (my case, young adults), what they want to read, the new fandom etc. It is one tricky business and these people have it all figured out.

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