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ideklolwat asked:

Hello! So I'm having problems like dropping clues and hints to big revel of the story, how do I still keep my readers engaged and not give all the answers away?

writingquestionsanswered answered:

Dropping Hints without Giving Everything Away

If you want to keep readers engaged and looking forward to “the big reveal,” it’s essential to drop hints along the way to keep them guessing, but doing that without giving everything away can be tricky. The key is to choose hints and clues that are intriguing but not specific–unless you’re intentionally trying to misdirect the reader, which isn’t what I’m covering here.

Specific hint/clue: a matchbook is found at the crime scene and there’s only one character who smokes and frequents that bar.

In this case, the reader is going to suspect that character was at least present at the crime scene, but they’re probably going to assume they’re the killer. And if they’re right, that’s obviously going to steal a lot of thunder from the big reveal.

Indirect hint/clue: a matchbook is found at the crime scene and it could belong to one of three characters–a character who is known to smoke, a character who is known to work at the bar the matchbook came from, or a character who is known to collect matchbooks.

In this case, all three of the characters become suspects. Based on that clue alone, the reader won’t have more or less reason to suspect one character over any of the others.

As you drop indirect clues and hints throughout the story, it gives your reader room to put the pieces together however they think they fit best. Maybe they come to the right conclusion, maybe they don’t, but the point is you’re not telling them directly. Ideally, after the big reveal, you want the reader to be able to look back at all of those hints and see how together they pointed toward this one character rather than any of the others.

I hope that helps! <3

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redjennies

love how if you marry Abigail, her 14 heart event is about her having to save you from a monster and feeling some sort of quiet but life changing guilt about taking a life for the first time and she insists on burying it and if you go by the grave later you get a message about how she had to take a life to save yours and you will never forget that.

but if you marry Sebastian, he'll just be hanging out in the kitchen one morning and be like "hey, couldn't sleep last night so I went for a walk through the mines and got this for you" and hand you void essence which you can only get in the mines by going down to the 80+ levels and killing Shadow People, which are sapient people that can talk and have their own culture and customs and shit, and this is a Perfectly Normal morning you can have.

starryescapades

holy shit I thought sv was just farming

redjennies

to be fair 90% of the game is farming, but there are also wizards and a thousand year war between dwarves and Shadow People and cute little forest spirits that will help you overthrow Walmart.

wow?? stardew valley hahaha
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tj-crochets

Links to my free sewing patterns!

- big manta ray
- smaller manta ray
- monster friend (those monsters with horns I’ve been making lately, but without horns)
- pie slice
- Fred, the Fish of Minimal Effort
- tiny cat (aka Jiji)
- mini mothman
- whale shark/donut whale shark
- juggling frog/toad (aka my smallest, simplest frog pattern of the three I’ve made)
- large frog
- tiny hedgehog
- minecraft bee

tj-crochets

Periodic reminder of the free sewing patterns I’ve shared so far! I’m hoping to get another free one shared soon, I just need to figure out which one. Maybe the mini-mushroom creatures?

thats great! reference so cute :)