Week #5: Foreshadowing

Some quick author notes we may add to and revise as time goes on...

In Week #5 of "Giant Girl Rampages," Melly's giant monster dream forms the centerpiece of a week that sees Melly withdraw for a while after another bad outing in town.

We've previously established Melly's dreams as being particularly vivid and populated by recurring characters like Miss Freckles and Dream Boy. In this dream we have those two dream-beings interacting with Melly and each other in a cinematic landscape--the problem being that we also previously established that Melly hasn't seen a whole lot of movies in her life and probably wouldn't dream in pop culture references like Godzilla.

Our solution was to have Melly start the week by raving about a certain Japanese monster movie she just happened to see over the weekend. Now when the dream hits, we know that she's seen the film and has it freshly churning in her mind. Foreshadowing is your friend in blog-novels just as in paper-novels. And if you read the posts carefully, you might see more foreshadowing of things that may not happen for weeks or months yet--like Friday's post about Melly's big secret and whether Jay knows about it or not.

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