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My name's Ben.
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My name's Ben.
#2: Nov 26th 2016 at 7:39:25 AM
Are you writing from first person or from the protagonist's POV?
If so, an easy way to be subtle but make the reader take care is to frame it as a complaint. Something like this.
"Hero Mc Wonderful bumped into the old woman and noticed her dropping a glass trinket. When he offered the old bird 20 dollars, she just glared at him.
Hero pressed the money into her hand and walked away. People are so tense and hostile these days, he thought."
This makes it memorable but disguises your foreshadowing as character development.
Great men are almost never good men, they say. One wonders what philosopher of the good would value the impotence of his disciples.
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I'll admit, I didn't search very hard to see if there was a similar thread, so if I am copying one then I'm sorry about that.
A question (or two) for those more well-versed in writing than I am: is there a way to write something that foreshadows future events or introduces a Chekov'sGun without it being too obvious for a savvy audience, while also not having it come off as a BLAM? For example; Let's say the protagonist is walking along a street when they bump into another person. The bump causes the person to drop something, having it break or spill or etc onto the ground. The person is frustrated but the Protag doesn't stick around to face their wrath. Now let's say this moment becomes important later on in the story - maybe in a sequel, that person rats out the Protag to some people who are after them, getting the Protag caught. Would there be some method that allowed that scene to fall somewhere between "Obviously Important" and "Out-of-Nowhere Useless"?
Follow-up Question, how would you keep something from being seen as a BLAM if it doesn't have an impact on the story?