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Last week I took a Great Icon of English literature and trashed his cliffhanger chapter ending. And I think I was right enough about the badness of his endings, but I also realise that I didn\u2019t actually offer much about what good endings actually look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, today we investigate that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to look at chapter endings from Katherine Rundell\u2019s Impossible Creatures<\/em>, a book aimed at roughly 10-12 year old readers, but which also sold plenty to adults too. The book won a ton of prizes and sold lots of copies, so it\u2019s a pretty fair place to look for inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to put chapter ending techniques in different buckets, and we\u2019ll see which bucket fills up fastest. The book starts out with two characters (Mal and Christopher) and I\u2019ll label chapters accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prologue (Mal)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u2026 when there was a knock on the door.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the murderer.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That IS kind of a cliffhanger-y chapter ending, but the chapter doesn\u2019t finish in the middle of the action (Hardy-style). Instead, it closes on the cusp of something dramatic that’s about to happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, this is really a prologue \u2013 it\u2019s only a page long \u2013 so it plays by different rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bucket: Cusp of drama<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2 (Mal)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut they were busy, and people mostly let her be, to run and eat and fly.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except, that day, for the murderer.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This just picks up the exact same tune as the prologue. If we\u2019re being honest, that tune has only very recently been played and it\u2019s a bit weak to revert to it quite so soon. But? OK, I\u2019ve done things like that myself. It is a compromise, but not an especially grievous one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the prologue was \u2018cusp of drama\u2019, because there was an actual knock at the door. Here, no action is on the point of being launched, so this is a promise <\/em>of action but (because of the \u2018that day\u2019) with the status set to imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bucket: Promise of action (imminent)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 3 (Christopher)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way grew steeper, and the earth darker, a peaty black dotted with gorse. The air began to smell different \u2013 richer, and deeper, and wilder.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an interesting one. You can\u2019t really say that this foreshadows future action, because there\u2019s not even a whiff of what any action might be. What there is here, however, is a sense of change, and a hint as to what that change is going to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s going to be richer, deeper and wilder, of course. But it\u2019s also going to be steeper \/ darker \/ blacker. That is, it\u2019s going to be tough and dangerous. This is good writing, for sure, because a perfectly normal comment about the changing landscape is interpreted \u2013 correctly \u2013 as a comment about the boy\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bucket: Foreshadowing change (non-specific)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 4 (Mal)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe flew there, 23 feet up in the sky, the wind buoying her, her feet pointed behind.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She did not see that the murderer watched her go.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is now the third Mal chapter in a row that uses the exact same device \u2013 the exact same word<\/em> \u2013 to propel reading. Honestly? I think it grates now. I\u2019d have been happier with an ending along the lines of \u201cShe was confident that she\u2019d escaped. Perhaps now, things could return to normal.\u201d Any reader would interpret that as \u201cOf course she hasn\u2019t b****y well escaped, you idiot…\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in terms of chapter ending style, we\u2019re still in the same place as for the last one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bucket: Promise of action (imminent)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 5 (Christopher)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2019You’re welcome here: you’re my grandson, and it’s right that you should come. But don’t forget what I said [regarding a forbidden pond].\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He left. He didn’t notice \u2013 for even the wisest of the old forget, sometimes, the care and subtlety of the young \u2013 that Christopher had made no promise [again, in relation to the pond].<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, by contrast, seems like a pretty much perfect chapter ending. The author is effectively promising that her character is about to do something that he shouldn’t do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t at this stage know what the consequences of that transgression will be, so we can\u2019t quite bracket this as a promise of action. All we really know is that whatever Christopher does is going to alter things in an exciting way. So our verdict is \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bucket: Promising change (non-specific)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 6 (Mal)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe had thought about writing to them, to tell them what she knew, but had decided not to. She could not bear to risk him [her griffin, the last one left alive] being taken.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She shivered, hard. She tucked her hair into her navy fisherman’s jersey, and prepared to fly home.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This chapter ending seems to me a little inert. And, OK, a great book can cope perfectly well with a few rather flat chapter endings, so I don\u2019t want to make too much of this criticism. But the ending actually flattens any change, rather than creating it. The ending has a feeling of \u201cOK, so we\u2019re done here\u201d to it, without undermining that statement, even metaphorically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bucket: Flat ending; no promise of change<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoughts on all the above<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s interesting to me here is that the best endings, to my taste, were the Christopher ones. They revolved around foreshadowing change \/ promising future action (not imminent)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mal chapter endings seemed either too flat (the last one) or too constantly dramatic (all the murderer-based ones). When I look at my own chapter endings, they tend to cluster very much in Christopher type territory: foreshadowing change \/ promising future action (not imminent)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not at all saying that cusp of action<\/em> endings don\u2019t work \u2013 they certainly do, but they are the raisins in the pudding. They\u2019re not the pudding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps all this is just a matter of personal taste, but I really don\u2019t think it is. I think that gives us a sense of what good chapters endings generally feel like. Join us over on Townhouse<\/a><\/strong>, if you can, and jump into this week\u2019s Feedback Friday discussion. I think it\u2019ll be very illuminating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FEEDBACK FRIDAY \/ Chapter endings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Again, there are two FF options this week. One for those taking the Plan Your Romance Novel<\/a><\/strong> video course, one not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plot Your Romance Novel video course task<\/strong>: Write one or two sentences about how you plan to combine or subvert common romance tropes. Share this in the forum<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General task<\/strong>: Give us two or three of your chapter endings, just as I\u2019ve done in this email. Share your reflections on whether they work and what you think they\u2019re doing – and as always, please provide your book’s title and genre. When you’re ready, upload your work here<\/a><\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Til soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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