Hello! I'm Ashy_Haze, your local traumatizer of children! *Ahem* Let me rephrase that. I have a lot of trauma in my books. With characters who are children. But that's not the point! The point is that I am here to teach you about a wonderful thing in writing: ✨foreshadowing✨
First of all, what is foreshadowing? Well, according to the Oxford dictionary, foreshadowing is "a warning or indication of a future event" but my definition is little hints and clues which are sprinkled into the story for something which will happen. It can be something as huge as a BIG REVEAL which happens over the course of several books, or just something which will happen in the next scene.
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Examples:
Let's say I'm writing a story about...traumatized kids, and one of them is doing their normal things, going about their daily life when all of a sudden, they get a paper cut on their finger. In the next scene, they slice their finger open more. This scene, (while being very rudimentary) is an example of foreshadowing.
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Foreshadowing can be something as simple and easy to read as the example above or complex and poetic in a sense that only reading back through that scene (or entire book) you can understand more of what those scenes mean and realize the foreshadowing.
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Anyways, that's my lesson on foreshadowing! I hope you understand it a bit better, and if not, look it up on your own 'cause I tend to be not the best teacher.
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Peace!
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