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On Writing: Foreshadowing (Patreon)

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2018-05-04 06:35:49
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This video was a hell to write, a joy to edit, and something I'm really proud of. Plus, I get to reference Life is Strange, a game very close and dear to my heart. Have any of you played it? If so, what did you think of it?

Foreshadowing is hard. I still struggle with it. This video was a little different because usually I've focused on either how to avoid problems in writing or elements of the story itself. This is more a technique, so it was a new experience for me!

Stay nerdy, and thank you so much for supporting me <3

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September

Sweet video! I've always found foreshadowing as something really complicated so I loved how you broke it down. (Also, this video coming out today made me a very happy birthday girl, so thanks!!)

C. M. Alongi

This video was really helpful. Foreshadowing is something I struggle with, and usually avoid altogether. But I think I can start to weave it in my stories.

MercuryBuddha

Great video as usual man. As for foreshadowing, I'd love to use it to tell one of my stories, if I can figure out what the plot is leading towards instead of just coming up with heaps of backstory, cool characters, an interesting setting, and a basic starting premise that I have no idea where to take! Ah well, I'm sure it'll come to me one day like all the rest of it did over time, percolating in my head. =P Your videos sure do help with thinking about things though!

Hello Future Me
>>12098273

Happy to know they do! They're honestly my magnum opus, I should think. What premise do you have to begin with? Just an idea.

MercuryBuddha
>>12098273

So far the inciting incident is that protag finds out his cousin is dead when his cousin's familiar companion shows up at his door, saying that protag is his new master now, because his previous master willed it. Problem is, my dude isn't a mage and doesn't want to be one, being perfectly content to half arse his way through life as a journalist freelancing to the local newspapers and mooching off his family's money and good name to get by. Under pressure from both his large extended family and prominent members of the city's local supernatural community, he has to solve the mystery surrounding the events leading up to his cousin's death and decide what he's going to do with what is essentially a water vampire that is trying to move into his life and use him as a surrogate for his dead cousin. My problem is, I have no idea what killed the cousin and what sort of story I want to tell here, beyond an excuse to explore and explain the world I've set up to the reader. I've decided I want to not do a chosen one story and I don't want my guy to by anything special in particular, just a guy who knows the right people in the right place to be the one that gets to solve the problem, and even then mostly because other people are forcing him to. I want to avoid a story that is about setting up an identity, a training to be a something story or that sort of thing that often gets explored in the stories I often read. Like nothing against them but as I've gotten older, chosen one narratives seem a little sus when set against a population of billions, where only one person can save the world. I want to explore smaller stories that are less about big world changing things and more about how to get by, smaller adventures that could happen in anyone's neighbourhood or city. I liked the feeling and tone of the Anita Blake books and want to write something like that, but set in rural Australia. I want to explore what happens to the supernatural in the modern world, how world history would be different if the supernatural was real but history still took basically the same shape and lead to the world as we know it, but more. That's the sort of thing that interests me. I just don't know how to tell an interesting story that organically explores bits of that. Really I guess you should start with the story first then build the world to serve it but I've sorta stumbled into it the opposite way around. Also, I'm not really a writer, basically at all. I'm just a guy who has waaaaay too many idea for things that he'll probably never use for anything. I'm a dreamer, not a do-er. But, IF, I was to write something, the above is what I've been working on in my head for a few years now. More ideas will come to me in time and I may actually start writing it out instead of just shaping it in my head and dreaming about it.