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Godwin Okojie II's avatar

I love this post! I myself haven't written a live serial yet, but I have been writing fiction for a decade, and I'm still trying to get better at foreshadowing!

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Ben Woestenburg's avatar

Since I started serializing, I haven't really thought about where the story is going. By that, I mean I'm a pantser type of writer. I'm also one of those "in the middle" type of writers. I like to have a store of chapters in reserve as I post, so that I can edit as I go along, foreshadowing and making sure that Chekov's gun is primed and loaded. I'm working on the last part of my book right now, but my writing is worlds away from the way you do it. I keep notes in a note book, and quickly discard them as I move the story along. I just seem to remember shit. I'll be writing something, and then remember something from earlier, and bring that up, so that what I wrote earlier looks like foreshadowing, and that I planned it all out, but I didn't. It's just something I remembered. It seems to work for me, because, even though I don't have a lot of PAID subscribers following me, those I do have are liking it. And not knowing 'exactly' where the story is going, keeps me on my toes. Because if I get bored with the story, damn straight the reader will as well. But foreshadowing as an afterthought is like catching balls out of the air that are falling, while I don't even know they're up there in the first place -- it's just a matter of catching them so they don't hit me.

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