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hey writer friends 🖤 do your chapters kinda… just end?

👉 like they don't suck, but they don’t pull either?

👉 like you’re not sure if it's a scene break or a full stop?

👉 like you're writing good stuff but readers keep putting it down?

i just dropped a brand new newsletter post that’s gonna fix that:

✶ “How to End a Chapter So Readers Actually Want to Turn the Page”

this isn’t your basic “end on a cliffhanger lol” advice. this is about:

→ micro-cliffhangers → emotional punches → character choices → momentum > resolution → the ✨ satisfying unsettlement ✨ that keeps readers up til 3am

plus a bonus trick i use in my own WIPs that makes chapters feel seamless (even when they’re not)

🖤 it’s an easy read, fast and smart, and you’ll leave with like 3 new techniques to try immediately

📩 read it here:

💌 and follow the newsletter if you want more gritty, smart, non-aesthetic writing advice that actually helps you write better books.:

There are moments when structure doesn’t restrict us at all— it clarifies us.

D/s has taught me that intimacy isn’t born from force or performance, but from the quiet shapes that allow the unedited self to rise without being asked.

Some people think power exchange is a narrowing. To me, it’s the opposite— a doorway back to what was always there, waiting for light.

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