CLIFF HANGERS
Use 'cliff hangers'--the promise of coming excitement--at the end of a scene and at chapter breaks, to entice the reader to turn pages. Your reader should not stop reading until he reads 'THE END' and closes the book. If you have made your reader identify with the protagonist in some way, it is very often himself living the story. Cliff hangers are just one of many writing techniques to keep the reader interested. The character's life becomes, for a time, the reader's life. So give just a hint of what's to come next, and your reader will be forced to turn the page to see what happens because it is also happening to him!