Writer's Notebook (tips and guides)

8 Ways To Write A Chapter

As a writer, you want your readers to look forward to the next chapter— not look at it and decide to put the book down. So, how can you introduce your chapters in a way the readers can't resist?

1. Jump Straight To The Action. Some examples may be include:

• "The queen's grown was trimmed with dust. I wondered if anybody else noticed."

• "I woke up to two things: a Sun that shriveled my vision and a sword kissing my neck."

• "Fire consumed the last of the building."

2. Use An Interesting Point Of View, especially if you want some kind of emotional/important aspect to this area of the story. Some Examples may include:

• The POV of a sword as it takes the life of a king.
• The POV of a flower as it watches the couple in your story sit in a cafe.
• The POV of the stars as they watching something happened to your characters.

For this one, feel free to get as a poetic and outside-of-the-box as you'd like! This specific exercise is something that reminds me of why i love writing— you can do whatever you'd like.

3. Start with an interesting flashback and tie it into a previous chapter! Some examples may include:

• A flashback to a character's childhood after having some questions raised about it in the previous chapter.
• A flashback to something bad that happened earlier on in the story to show how it left an impact on the character's mind.
• On the contrary, something good that happened on as the character tries to reassure themself that there's still good in their world.

4. An outside source that's related to the story. Some examples may include:

• A VERY brief passage of "textbook history" on some part of the world if you're writing fantasy, sci-fi etc.
• Write a song/poem inspired by some part of the story (relationship, setting, etc) and start each chapter with the next line of the song/poem.
• A letter from one character to another.

5. Start every chapter with the same sentence. But have it mean something different each time. This is a tricky one, but if ou can pull it off, then it'll be interesting for the readers.

6. Use a sentence that simply grabs their attention, and makes them go, "what?" This could really be anything, but you want it to be a sentence makes the reader NEED to know what happens next.

7. Use sensory details to ground the reader in the setting, and don't overlook the use of taste, touch, or smell! If you can really hold the reader in your story, then chances are they'll forget to put it down.

8. Make something go horribly wrong. They'll want to know the characters react + how the issue is resolved!

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