20.36: Deep Dive into “All the Birds in the Sky” - Using the Lens of When

<p><span>If you still want to read </span><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/99681/9780765379955" rel="nofollow"><em>All the Birds in the Sky</em> by Charlie Jane Anders, you can purchase it here!</a></p><p><span>We are looking today at the lens of </span><em>when</em><span>. But we’re not going to look at time periods—instead, we’re going to examine flashbacks and foreshadowing. “All the Birds in the Sky” takes place in four distinct times. For instance, one of the characters foreshadows a grim future for the children we’ve just met. This big jump forward colors the way that we see the kids, through both stakes and tension. And this begs the question, how do “future whens” affect your reading experience?  </span></p><p><strong>Homework</strong><span>: Pick a scene in your current project and think about two moments: one moment in the past of this scene, and one that is in the future (both of these moments should still resonant with this scene in some way). Then, write two different versi...