I Cant Be The Only Fanfic Writer Whos Forgotten What Details Are Canon And Whats Just Dumb Shit I Made

I can’t be the only fanfic writer who’s forgotten what details are canon and what’s just dumb shit I made up.

Basics Of Foreshadowing With Techniques

At its core, storytelling has one ambition: to capture and sustain your reader’s attention and keep them reading your story. Foreshadowing, or slyly indicating a future event, is one technique a writer can use to create and buillding suspense. Its useful for creating suspense, a feeling of unease, a sense of curiosity, or a mark that things may not be as they seem.

Foreshadowing does not necessarily mean explicitly revealing what will happen later in your story. In fact, when it is used effectively, many readers may not even realize the significance of an author’s foreshadowing until the end of the story.

There are 2 types of foreshadowing:

1. Direct foreshadowing (or overt foreshadowing): In this type of foreshadowing, the story openly suggests an impending problem, event, or twist. Direct foreshadowing is usually accomplished through the characters’ dialogue, the narrator’s comments, a prophecy, or even a prologue.

2. Indirect foreshadowing (or covert foreshadowing): In this type of foreshadowing, the story hints at an outcome by leaving subtle clues throughout the story. With indirect foreshadowing, readers likely won’t realize the meaning of the clues until they witness the foreshadowed event.

TECHNIQUES TO USE IT:

1. Dialogue: You can use your characters’ dialogue to foreshadow future events or big reveals. This foreshadowing may take the form of a joke, an offhand comment, or even something unsaid that adds personality to your characters while planting the seed for later revelations.

2. Title: The title of a novel or short story can be used to foreshadow major events in the story as well.

3. Setting: The choices you make about the setting or atmosphere of your story can foreshadow events as well.

4. Metaphor or simile: Figurative language like similes and metaphors can be effective foreshadowing tools

5. Character traits: A character’s appearance, attire, or mannerisms can foreshadow that character’s true essence or later actions.

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