Any moderately educated reader subliminally understands negative space. Web pages that lack it are unreadable. I doubt the interauthor would write "Chapter 2" at the top of a page unless they're intending the work for publication, but I bet they'd leave extra blank lines between blocks of text sometimes, or go on to the next page without filling the previous, etc, just because it will be easier on their own eye.
Chapters in books do often create artificial cliffhangers. As a reader, I cruise right through chapter breaks and bookmark and stop reading when the narrative lags or I get to a Tolkien-esque block of description... so as a writer, maybe that artificial chapter break is better than the implied insult to any slow bits in the text?
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Any moderately educated reader subliminally understands negative space. Web pages that lack it are unreadable. I doubt the interauthor would write "Chapter 2" at the top of a page unless they're intending the work for publication, but I bet they'd leave extra blank lines between blocks of text sometimes, or go on to the next page without filling the previous, etc, just because it will be easier on their own eye.
Chapters in books do often create artificial cliffhangers. As a reader, I cruise right through chapter breaks and bookmark and stop reading when the narrative lags or I get to a Tolkien-esque block of description... so as a writer, maybe that artificial chapter break is better than the implied insult to any slow bits in the text?