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#PennedPossibilities 652 — Do you ever use cliffhangers at narrative breaks and / or chapter endings?

Most of my chapters end with a cliffhanger or mystery of varying intensity. When I write something that feels like either, it's the truest indicator that the chapter is complete, and it's time to start another. However, I recognize the need for a cooldown period every so often, and throw in a slice-of-life chapter—the calm before the storm—or a handkerchief wringer where I calmly milk the emotional angst the narrative has built up.

A.K.A. and D.B.A. a "page turner."

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The Satanic Curses – Violence.

Written by Satan & Lee Wilson.
What goes around comes around. I can feel him. This is not someone walking over my grave; this is someone jumping up and down upon it, taking a piss on it and then bouncing around the edge of the gravestone while mocking my corpse. The hairs on the back of my neck tingle and stand […]
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.22 — Earth Day! Who’s your most traveled character? Your least traveled?

The main Reluctance Series antagonist has probably been everywhere in the world and been most every profession, with mother having been her most repeated job. Immortality and always being 24 has its up and down sides.

Wintereyes has traveled all over the Fell Forest with the wolf pack that adopted her, but it's still a just a forest despite the size of the territory. Her parents' farm is just outside its border. Now that she's earned magical fame for befriending a wyvern (and arbitrating a dispute between a farmer, a sneezy so-called red dragon, and an exploded grain silo that had undergone undiscovered fermentation), she now attends a university in a Township—but she's two shy to explore the place because, well, all the people.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.23 — World Book Day! Share a prompt or the first few lines of a story you wish you could read.

I hate that I can't write this steampunk story of redemption and betrayal myself. It requires expertise in how the military works, and the navy specifically. Have at it. I'd consider a collaboration.

She's horribly scarred and people can't bear to look at her, but she was the 1st in her class at the academy. A midshipman now an ensign is passed over for further promotions is given notice of discharge after her putting in her four years, despite serving as the crown's chief siege strategist. She's been called inhuman within earshot often enough that she doesn't believe she deserves recognition or friends, let alone the love she's read men in her position could find as misunderstood or looking piratical. She's planned to roam the world as an ascetic, planing sieges of cities she'll visit for the fun of it. As a final insult, she's given a last minute first command that delays the start of her new life, given a museum piece airship frigate—with a motley crew of screwups and green cadets along with a drunkard former top gun XO—that would fail to fight any engagement, given a mission that requires only the presence of a warship in the sky and zero prowess. All fine and good until the capital city she's "guarding" really does come under attack and hers is the only ship available.

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