The “Chekhov’s Gun” Guide to Foreshadowing. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.
oh I do recognize this. Writing poems in my bed, half asleep, wondering if I should get up to write down the three words that might boom me as a writer ?
