2007-10-30 16:33:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
There is no rule that can't be broken, and the best authors know the rules and know how and when to break them. Nothing innovative ever happens in the arts without breaking a few rules.
A good author simply captures the reader's thought process for a minute, and then lets it go so the reader can insert their own ideas, etc. Same with emotions and their imaginations.
If you ever watched a horror movie without the music soundtrack (or the black cat or the storm or the power failure or the phone call) you will know that when events are NOT foreshadowed, it scares all holy hell out of you when the killer jumps out of the bushes. Mission accomplished.
A similar idea is that sometimes the author knows just what details to leave out...and by leaving something ambiguous and undescribed, or unannounced, the reader is free to fill in the blank with the most extreme case of that thing ever. The author knows that they can't possibly fill in the blank as well as you can. You have your own version of the very prettiest sunset ever, or the very most horriblest monster ever and the author will seduce it right to the front of your imagination at the moment of their choosing.
Both instances are case of when the author does NOT set up the scene for the reader and it ends up with perfect results.
2007-10-30 17:55:37 · answer #1 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Foreshadowing is a must in all must all well-written stories. Why? Simply because foreshadowing allows the reader to consider what is to come. Writing a story without foreshadowing would prove to be difficult as it is almost impossible to not relate one event to the next. Also, readers are bored by no allusion of the continuing of the story.
2007-10-30 23:39:45 · answer #2 · answered by Jazz 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. But the thing about foreshadowing is that you don't really know it's there until you've gotten to the thing that was being foreshadowed.
2007-10-31 01:16:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Traditionally yes. Those are one of the things that keep me reading. And be sure to deliver. Don't psyche the reader out only to not even mention what you're building up for, it ruins your credibility.
2007-10-31 00:07:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily.
2007-10-30 23:37:51 · answer #5 · answered by John 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah pretty much
2007-10-30 23:41:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋