By p. 7, Will has just gotten to Philadelphia. They're in the living room and Henry takes out a CD for Will and him to listen to. Will says: "He said we should listen to some Haydn unless I preferred to nap. I agreed, and he handed me the box."
Henry has just handed Will the entire problem, in just one little CD box.
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Showing posts with label Foreshadowing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreshadowing. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Foreshadowing: "...he handed me the box." [p. 7]
Sunday, February 8, 2009
More Foreshadowing
Will says, on p. 4, "I jumped at the door opening. It sounded too much like a jail door opening."
More foreshadowing. How does Will know what a cell door sounds like unless he's been in jail? And what was he in for. Or maybe he just spent some time with prisoners. What's the story here.
Henry does a double take, he has learned much about Will from just that one event. Where is this story going with Will? Read on.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Foreshadowing: "And bring clothes..." [p. 4]
When instructing Will about staying with him Henry says: "'And bring clothes for any kind of weather'." Will says, 'I know all about that." Henry underlines his point: 'I mean it Will, You never know what it will do when.'" Will comments, "By the end of my time with Henry, I would certainly know that too."
Here's a little foreshadowing intended to ramp up the narrative drive. That's what keeps readers reading. But, like salt on meat, a little foreshadowing adds flavor, but too much of it can spoil the taste. As can over-used metaphors.
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Keys and Foreshadowing
I do a little foreshadowing here, more with the keys: Will says, "Looking back on it, it don't know why I had my keys out anyway. None of them worked anything in Philadelphia." (p.3)
This big suggests that nothing Will is going to do in the book will be effective. But what is he going to try to do? And is he just talking about the keys, or his he talking about his life? Questions, questions.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
What Will's Up Against
This first bit of dialogue with on p. 4. is instructive: Will shows the depth of the chasm between them at the start.
'Okay,' I [Will #1] said.A nifty piece of foreshadowing, if you ask me.
"And bring clothes for any kind of weather," [Henry] said.
"I know all about that," I said.
"I mean it, Will. You never know what it will do when," he said.
By the end of my time with Henry, I would certainly know that, too."
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Foreshadowing
I foreshadow Will a bit in the first few pages. Foreshadowing can be an effective tool early in the story, but can be overdone. You want to pull your reader through the story, but not hit him or her over the head with it or give too much away too soon. Do that and you'll turn off some readers.
Laurel Yourke, in Take Your Characters to Dinner (Lanham, MD: American University Press, 2000), on p. 200, defines foreshadowing as "a hint or series of clues suggesting or foretelling what will occur later." So do it, but slightly, like putting salt on meat. A little makes the meat taste good; too much of it does not and may be harmful to you if you're sensitive to sodium.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
What Will Values, Part 2: Effectiveness
On page 3, when Will is about to knock on Henry's door, he takes his keys out. I do this too, it's just habit. But Will says, "Looking back on it, I don't know why I had my keys out anyway. None of them worked anything in Philadelphia." A little foreshadowing here? Are we saying that Will sees himself as ineffective? Does he wish he were more effective as a person? Or is he telling us that he used to be habit-bound.
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Synopsis:
Ian Kearney, the director of the Kearney Music School, an elite musical training school in Philadelphia, dies after a fall from a balcony during a recital. World-famous cellist, Henry Harrier, recently forced from the faculty, returns to investigate Ian's death when his prized former student is arrested. Henry shows through his brilliant and single-minded pursuit of the truth that, as usual, they have it all wrong. This Sherlock Holmes-type mystery leads the reader through the world of classical music and lays bare the conflicts which dominate the lives of talented adolescents when placed under the pressure of studying for a demanding, stressful, and often elusive career as a classical music performer. Henry Harrier is part John Le Carre's George Smiley, part Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes, and part Orlando Cole the beloved teacher, renowned chamber musician, and until his own retirement, the premier cellist of the Curtis Institute.Author Profile:
Tim was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1946. In 1951 he moved with his family to Schenectady, New York, where he lived through high school. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from 1964 to 1968. He graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in history and philosophy. He received his Ph. D. in history in U.S. history in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after spending 2.5 years in the U. S. Army. Most of his army service was completed in Wuerzburg, Germany, from 1969-1971. In 1972 he returned to Madison to complete his doctoral study. His dissertation, Those Who Moved; Internal Migrants in American 1607-1840, combined the statistical analysis of genealogical and biographical data with the study of traditional literary diaries, letters, and journals.Tim was a market and survey research consultant from 1983 to 2000 and a smoking cessation researcher from 2000 to 2003. His consulting practice focused primarily on conducting community health needs assessment. He authored hundreds of market research reports and published a number of his assessments in Community Health Needs Assessment published by McGraw Hill in 1996 and in a revised volume published in 1999. In 2000 he joined the staff of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he conducted smoking cessation research. He published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and spoke at national smoking cessation conferences.
In 2003 he moved to Philadelphia and earned his real estate license. He now practices real estate, works on publishing his novels, and studies and teaches entrepreneurship.Tim has written a dozen novel-length stories, a volume of short stories, and about a 3-foot stack of pages poetry. He is currently working on earning his 4th million in real estate sales, publishing his novels, and working on an entrepreneurish handbook as a support for his students.
Tim is a trained violist and an experienced string quartet player. He is an avid listener to classical music and regularly attends classical music concerts. He has two grown children by his first wife and a stepdaughter with his second wife. He likes to cook, read, write, entertain, develop relationships, and help other people. Formerly Tim used to travel frequently. He doesn't so much anymore. Now he regards the combination of real estate practice, writing and publishing, and the teaching and studying of entrepreneurship as enough of a trip.
