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#WritersCoffeeClub 29/3: How do you handle foreshadowing? How do you navigate building up to the ‘big reveal’?
Being the kind of writer I am, it often isn’t consciously planned. But planned or serendipitous, it’s important not to overdo it. It’s the obverse of Chekhov’s Gun: yes, there’s a gun on the wall, but don’t have a character in the first scene going, 'Gosh, I say, chaps, is that a GUN on the wall?'
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The other thing about foreshadowing is that it can be ambiguous. In the novellas collected as 'Three Kinds of Now' (serialised on Substack, free to read) I’ve explored three scenarios where, at key points in Jerya’s life, things transpired differently. And yet (I hope) the text up to that point can equally lead you toward either conclusion.