Is there any more disconcerting experience as a writer than changing your mind about how a story is going to go, throwing in a massive plot twist that isn’t even in the neighbourhood of what you were planning when you started, going back to the early chapters in order to revise them and make sure the new direction is adequately foreshadowed… only to discover that somehow, the necessary foreshadowing is inexplicably already present?
Uhhh. *glances around* I thought that was just me.
It *is* mildly disturbing….
I used to agonise over whether I subconsciously saw the foreshadowing and made up the plot twist to fit, or whether there were, like, cobbler-gnomes for writers, coming in and filling in the foreshadowing while I wasn’t looking. Now I just shrug, accept the gift … and leave a cookie out in case gnomes.
Note to self: leave out cookies for plot gnomes next time.
*gnomes* not bunnies! Should learn to leave cookies and treats for them as well…
Plot…gnomes…?
OMG I LOVE IT!!!! I WILL HAPPILY BAKE FOR THE PLOT GNOMES!!!!
I think this is just how muses work.
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