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This question is a followup to my earlier question. Continuing the dialog with my one critic, I wrote back that I believed that certain "foreshadowing" was necessary. Then I added something like, ...
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This question is a followup to my [earlier question](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/35619/how-do-i-make-foreshadowing-more-relevant-in-the-early-going). Continuing the dialog with my one critic, I wrote back that I believed that certain "foreshadowing" was necessary. Then I added something like, "But I take what I believe to be your main point, which was that Chapter 2 was too early for this material, when other matters were more pressing." I now believe that this foreshadowing scene should be in Chapter 10 or 11, because the main scene takes place in Chapter 12. Is this a good way to look at things? Could it have been that the real problem was that the scene was in the wrong place, even though necessary?