Mastering Foreshadowing in Your Story

If your story starts with anything foreboding—creaking floors, snuffed-out candles, or  threatening skies, you’re implying danger or terrible trouble ahead for your main character. 

Masterful storytellers foreshadow such things with disquieting clues of what’s to come. 

What is Foreshadowing? And Why is it Important?

Foreshadowing is a literary device authors use to lay a foundation for what’s coming in their story. If our primary goal as writers is to keep people reading, foreshadowing is a cru...