18.34: Seventeen Years of Foreshadowing
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18.34: 17 Years of Foreshadowing
What can Normal Gossip teach us about foreshadowing and artful storytelling?\\xa0
Thinking about the 20 books that make up Howard Tayler\\u2019s Schlock Mercenary, our hosts discuss foreshadowing\\u2014our favorite examples, and our go-to tricks for structuring our own work. What does foreshadowing actually do for our work? Do we even need it? Well, yeah\\u2026 it\\u2019s like invisible narrative scaffolding. But it\\u2019s also like a red herring. It\\u2019s so many things! Listen to us discuss the best ways to use it in your own work, in a way that sounds true to your own writerly voice and vision.\\xa0
Homework:\\xa0
Take a throwaway gag from one of your favorite things and outline a story or scene in which the throwaway turns out to have been foreshadowing.\\xa0
Thing of the Week:\\xa0
Babel by R. F. Kuang\\xa0
Liner Notes:\\xa0
Game of Thrones, Fonda Lee, Fermi paradox, Normal Gossip
Credits: Your hosts for this episode were Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler. It was produced by Emma Reynolds, recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson.
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