Probably a good idea, mostly, unless you’re backloading.
Do
you know about backloading? It’s an effective way to end a scene or chapter.
From a course I gave in Atlanta in October of 2016, here’s an example:
A feeling of dread came over me as I opened the door. (Then
you viciously cut to another scene and leave them hanging.)
Better would be this:
As I opened the door, I was overcome with an inexplicable
feeling of dread.
Door is not the most important or evocative word in that
cliffhanger sentence. Dread is so it needs to go last to leave an impression.
Of course, in this case, dread is not a pronoun. Let me see if I can come up
with a backloaded sentence splitting the pronoun from the antecedent.
How about this?
The boys, tiring after hours of seeking a way out of the
dark, dank cave, felt the warmth and wetness of their own tears.
Can you think of better ones?
backhoe photo by Dan
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