CHAPTER 17
Foreshadowing Management
Track setup, progress, payoff, and abandoned threads.
Foreshadowing can be planned, planted, progressing, awaiting payoff, paid off, or abandoned.
- Create the thread and state its intended purpose.
- Link the setup chapter and source evidence.
- Update its status when later chapters advance it.
- Set an intended payoff range.
- Link the actual prose after payoff.
- If abandoned, record why so the Agent stops suggesting it.
Reminders support editorial judgment; every small detail does not require a payoff.
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