Message for M. Reader: Are You Telegraphing Your Plot?

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

Still down with a cold, so I'm pulling from the archives today. Here's an updated (and useful) reminder from 2012 on the perils of telegraphing your plot. Enjoy! 

Have you ever watched a TV show or movie, and someone says something that you know is going to come back later and be the key to saving the day? "Well now," says random stranger, "we haven't use that road since a big old sinkhole opened up ten years ago." Immediately, we know that sinkhole is totally where the hero is going to lead the horrible monster or bad guy chasing him at the climax--and he does.

Kinda takes all the fun out of it, right?
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