Stiles, Trying To Fix The Jeep: I Got This.

Stiles, trying to fix the Jeep: I got this.

Lydia, pulling pliers from toolbox: Do you even know what this is?

Stiles: Doy, it’s a scissors.

Lydia:

Lydia: Yeah, that’s exactly right.

Then why did he put the Devil in me? Why do I feel it in my heart and my soul, clawing to be let out, if that’s not all part of God’s plan? xx

Can u link to that post where your screencapping the stuff about jj i want 2 read it 👀

https://www.reddit.com/r/saltierthancrait/comments/eisnd8/heres_what_ive_been_told_from_a_source_that/

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Would you have won that state championship without Spencer James? I think it would have been tough without him, for sure.

Hey kate, thanks for reading this! So, partway through the story im writing, my characters are going to run into the main villain. However, at this moment in time, they don't know they're the villain, thinking it's a minor inconvenience, escaping the minor inconvenience, and continuing on their way. What good ways could I foreshadow that this is the actual villain while foreshadowing that the "villain" isn't actually a villain?

Hmm… Foreshadowing is, at its core, meant to be undetectable on the first read and then hit the reader in the face when they read it, knowing the details that haven’t been revealed at that point in the story. For scenes like this, I recommend putting a flag next to it and then coming back when you’ve fleshed out the rest of the story to the point of the 2nd or 3rd draft. This may seem like procrastinating, but you will automatically write it better if you’ve already built up some minor details later on that you can hint at when you edit that scene later on. 

You can’t foreshadow effectively if you don’t know the details you want to include yet, and even if you have everything plotted and outlined down to the grain, the best things you can reference in foreshadowing are the creative elements you add in the moment. So, once you’ve reached the end of your second draft, return to the scene and find little places in dialogue or description where you can insert details that will give the desired effect. 

Here’s a couple articles I think you might find useful if you’d like more guidance:

How To Foreshadow

Writing Good Villains

Editing & Proofreading Cheat-Sheet

Best of luck!

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