Originally published at: https://shanniiwrites.com/2020/06/09/red-herring-and-the-art-of-distraction/
What’s a Red Herring? Sounds like a fish, right? But what would that have to do with a blog about creative writing? Keep reading to find out! Definition A Red Herring is a distraction in a piece of writing. The name is based on a tale about hunting dogs getting distracted by the smell of…
By the wonderful @Rainbow 
Interesting!
Keep reading to find out!
That’s what you said hehe 
Super well written and helpful! 
Whenever I think about this topic I keep getting reminded of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. He mentions a lot of writing techniques in his stories, which is actually genius considering he uses a lot of them.
Aww thanks 
I really didn’t expect you’d accept my rad fish as the featured picture 
Lol in one of the book series, the red herring is a literal red herring lmao. I’m sorry I love Lemony Snicket too much
It’s amazing!
I need to have a look at that, it’s not very popular here 
Thanks 
But I made it more out of boredom and trying to procrastinate on my homework And I couldn’t find a cute fish online
what a shame!
Lemony Snicket has such an amazing and unique writing style that I absolutely love to death.
Also awesome blog post Shannii!
Yet another great one, Rainbow 
Awesome post!
Thank you
From one of my favorite movies:
It’s kind of ironic that although I wrote that blog post and gave tips on how to use a red herring in your story, I’m not able to write a good one in my story Being careful not to make it too obvious? That’s really not one of my skills. Whenever I try to add a red herring, it’s so obvious that it hurts my poor writer brain 
I guess I just need more practice. And maybe I should read my own blog post to learn something
I bet it’s better than you think! Maybe you just need someone to go through it with? 
Maybe I just need to finally plan my stories
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