False Ledes

A technique I sometimes use, the False Lede tricks readers by taking them in a direction that turns out to be illusory. It can take a couple of forms. In First Sighting, a Mural Gazer episode, Buddy Hope is jolted from sleep by the yapping of a small dog, which he first heard just before he retired for the night in the cab of a camper-pickup truck parked at Nixon Creek on Lake Cowichan.

The reader has already been primed for something to happen by Buddy’s first encounter, just before he bedded down, and by an earlier episode in the novel, Mural #1 – The Steam Donkey, where his friend and companion on the camping trip, Harry Sanderson, had experienced a similar event.

It’s important, when using this device, to have the reader ‘primed’ – that is, anticipating where the story might be going based on earlier events.

They are not surprised when Buddy reacts instinctively. Nor does it seem unlikely he would be further alarmed when a boy calls out “Gypsy” to the phantom dog – the same name the boy in Harry’s vision had called out in The Steam Donkey.

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If it’s been executed properly this false lead will convince readers that Buddy is actually experiencing these events – the action fits their preconceptions.

Then Buddy awakens, and realizes he was dreaming – a pretty common exit-to-reality scenario. What has been created, though, is a portent. There’s no such thing as ‘just a dream’ in the mindscape of a novel, and the reader will anticipate further encounters with Gypsy and a mystery boy Arthur after this episode.