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This is a literary device that talks about how when you devote time to describing an object and putting it into the story, you need to use that object later. It comes from a scene with a gun over the mantle or somewhere else. But if the gun is brought into the story, the readers have a thought that something will be shot.
That doesn't mean it will be a person or character in the story. There might be a wild animal that needs to be stopped or a warning shot might be fired. But we expect that the gun will be needed. Perhaps it is only to be found later, in a locker at school, when the kid should not have had access to it.
But this can apply to any object within the story that you give a lot of loving attention to. Make it beautiful. Make it your own. And make it important within your story.
In this way, nearly all stories have some object. It might not feel like something that you can hold in your hands. Even a contract between two people (like a roommate agreement) could come into play later. There are loopholes and common conventions that might be taken into account as time goes by that will throw each of them into confusion or uproar. These objects that imbue your story with meaning need to find new ways to deepen your story as well.
This is why we don't always go into all the details about a room with the wallpaper, flooring, four chairs, pictures on the walls, bookshelves lining the back of the room, and what we can see out the windows. All those details are important to ground your reader in the scene. But if I spend four pages writing about one book on the shelf, the reader is probably going to think it's important. And if it isn't, I hope that book is prepared to be thrown against the wall.
What is there in your story that takes on more life than you started with? What is there that can drag your readers to wonder what will happen? This object could also deepen a theme of some sort within the story. Use it to your authorly advantage. |
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ENB
Oh, I used to read those books!  Yes, I am guilty of holding my place and going back.  The thing that frustrated me about those books is I could never get the right ending! I always died within my first two choices. 
I think that's a common problem, hence the "cheating!"
Quick-Quill 
I love reading children's stories. They write the basics. This happened, then this happened, after that this happened, then the end. Take this outline then fill in what conflicts and resolutions help the story to THE END. It's easy
I don't know why it can't be that easy with adult novels, either.
monty31802
A fine News Letter, I like those words "choose your own path".
Thanks!
BIG BAD WOLF is hopping 
Always a journey.
Some journeys you get to choose.
taliah_l
I've actually got a pretty detailed outline of a choose your own adventure novel, perhaps after exams I ought to take another look at it.
Perhaps it might be a good time. |
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