![]() ![]() But with a twist, they didn’t even suspect those facts were lurking out there. It’s different from, say, a mystery, where the characters and readers know there’s some piece of information they’re lacking and part of the plot is the search for that information. So what’s the difference between a good twist and one that results in an airborne book? Good question! And it brings us to the (hopefully) instructional part of this little article.Īt its simplest, a twist is when a piece of information is revealed that my readers-and very often my characters-don’t know has been kept from them. Like, it hits the far wall and then drops to the floor. Worst of all, from an authorial point of view, a poorly-executed twist can make me put a book down. Maybe utter a few colorful turns of phrase I can’t use in a quality publication like The Strand. Now, flipside of this, a bad twist can make me roll my eyes. And because it’s something I love reading, twists are a device I tend to use a lot in my own writing. ![]() I’ll forgive a lot if an author can knock me over with a completely unexpected reveal that seems obvious in retrospect. ![]()
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