Unlock the Secret Power of Cliffhangers: How Writers Keep You Glued to Every Page
This shows us his fear of snakes, and we know it will come into play later in the story.
Here’s another example from Jeffery Deaver’s book The Blue Nowhere:
The guard left and the door slammed, leaving Gillette alone with his curiosity and itchy desire to get back to his circuit board. He sat shivering in the windowless room, which seemed to be less a place in the Real World than a scene from a computer game, one set in medieval times. This cell, he decided, was the chamber where the bodies of heretics broken on the rack were left to await the high executioner’s ax.
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