How to Leave Breadcrumbs in Your Story

Published in The Writing Cooperative, winter 2021

When you read the title of this article, what do you envision? For many, it probably brings images of a “Hansel and Gretel” movie to mind, or perhaps a traumatic experience of feeding ducks at a local park as a child (okay, that one’s a bit too specific on an image, but I digress.) Unsurprisingly, an image of breadcrumbs probably doesn’t bring up thoughts about writing, or give you any sort of direction for how to write a story you’ve been working on, but I will argue that it should — leaving breadcrumbs in the form of foreshadowing is something that . . . READ MORE