My daughter reads to her son
every night before bed.
He is eleven and likes
mythological, fantasy, high action books. My daughter says that sometimes this
desire to keep a reader going, to have each chapter end with some disaster,
some catastrophe, or some life-altering event gets tiring.
This need / desire to keep the
action happening at the end of the chapter leaves no place to wind
down, to pause, and to give a reprieve from reading and a desire to return to it the following night.
So she has developed
the habit of stopping in the middle of the chapter.
Now that flies in the face of
present-day thinking. Keep ‘em reading. Keep ‘em engaged. Keep 'em turning the page.
Nope. Lead us gently to a fantastic ending.
What say you?
