: Re: What makes a cliffhanger bad/good? In the second (not yet written) book of my novel series, the ending is a cliffhanger. A very hopeless one. The very hopelessness of it is deliberate. Not

Perhaps the difference between good and bad cliffhangers isnâ€™t so much the cliffhanger itself (although some cliffhangers can be annoying because they feel too contrived to blatantly manipulate the readers emotions), but rather the more important issue is whether the reader had some resolution as well.

Cliffhangers are the opposite of resolution: they are a type of suspense. The balance is maintained as long as you have resolved some questions in your story before ending it with some suspense.

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