Chekhov's Gun. in Open Diary.

  • July 18, 2020, 11:17 a.m.
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Good writers already know about this. If there is a rifle on a wall, deliberately introduced in the first act, it should be fired in the second or third act.

In other words: foreshadowing.

I am thinking ahead to NaNoWriMo. I tend to pants my nanonovels. The one time I outlined, I collapsed, feeling a lack of creativity.

Still.

Whether there is pay-off or not, it is definitely fun to set things up and see where they go. I definitely have had side-characters take over the story, because they had something to say. Whereas the main characters were locked into an arc.

Anyway. Um. Yeah, that is all I got for now.


Last updated July 18, 2020


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