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Writing Excuses 9.51: Q&A At The Retreat

Writing Excuses

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How to Foreshadow a Story

Sometimes things that look like foreshadowing are really us looking back at the beginning and doing what can I use that I've already planted? The running gag is a very common sort of structure. And far better than the running gag is the joke at the end of the story that absolutely wouldn't have worked if you hadn't told three or four jokes that led up to it. It's the same exact principle as the foreshadowing. About half the time I know what the final joke is, but the other half of the time, we are sorry, I am writing jokes and I have no idea what the last joke is.

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