Write On This ... Exercise

Baby did a bad, bad, thing...

Alfred recently completed an exercise which showed one of his characters to have a deep, dark, secret. What made it fun--and addictive--reading, was the way he built tension and encouraged my curiosity to read on by using good foreshadowing technique. Foreshadowing treats your reader to exercising their own brains; in a sense, they have a 'pay-off' moment when all the little clues that egged them on to read are realised in the story and they have a moment of 'Ah-ha! I could see that coming, even though I couldn't see that coming...' It's a real treat for a reader.

More info and a good model (CAPE) can be found in this article:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/20425/foreshadowing_creating_suspense_u...

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Secretive behaviour is one good way to engage your reader; we all want to know a secret, don't we?

Either using the secret you discovered in "*22nd August"  , or by creating a new one of your own, write a small flash fiction that builds a need to read on with subtle hints (CAPE or otherwise) to reveal your character's secret.

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