Quote Originally Posted by boccaccio2000g
On a slightly different topic, what about chapter titles? Do you think chapter titles have anything to do with whether a reader opens a given story?
I sometimes like to use the old-fashioned style of chapter headers which are a quick synopsis of the chapter - "In which (something happens)" or "Tells how (this happened)". These can be very quirky, so that you only understand them after you've read the chapter. In my BDSM novel one chapter heading I particularly liked was "How Celia Kissed and Eric Made Up": what actually happens is that she captures him by giving him a blowjob (till she's in a position to say "Surrender or I'll bite"), then he gets a TV makeover.