{"id":174,"date":"2020-07-29T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ameetadavis.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:09:03","slug":"foreshadowing-how-to-feed-a-coincidental-end-to-your-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ameetadavis.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/29\/foreshadowing-how-to-feed-a-coincidental-end-to-your-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreshadowing – How to Feed a Coincidental End to Your Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Foreshadowing. How to feed a coincidental end to your reader and still keep them thrilled with your book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember reading a celebrated author\u2019s book, I loved it until I read the resolution. All I could think was WHAT HAPPENDED THERE? In the end I was pretty pissed and wondered why I had bothered investing my money and time in a book where the author had relied on such a sloppy coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, coincidence happens whether you call them that or law of attraction. But your readers need to believe the coincidences when they look back through the pages and find the  light-handed hints or references sprinkled in.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is ForeShadowing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a gift to be able to do it well. Joslyn Chase author of suspense thrillers says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you need to introduce something into your story that feels dangerously close to coincidence, you need a subtle way to give your readers just<\/em> enough information at just<\/em> the right moment. In short, you need foreshadowing. Every significant object, person, or fact needs to be planted in the story before it can be credibly used, and everything that\u2019s planted must come into play or it buzzes at the corner of a reader\u2019s subconscious like an annoying housefly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whist writing the River Rule series I had begun writing the second book before publishing the first. Therefore was able to rewrite parts to make foreshadowing more subtle or at least I think I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Techniques.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I used techniques like :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Mirroring:<\/strong> Allowing Una to remember moments when she picked locks on her father\u2019s drinks cabinet and the ones on the doors of unused warehouses,  made it more than plausible that she successfully picked the simple lock on her grandfather\u2019s gate to escape the jungle\u2019s creatures.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n