
Writing Excuses 10.36: How Does Context Shape Plot Twists?
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How to Do a Plot Twist
People are reading for specific effects. If you're picking up a book and you want surprises in shocks and thrills, that's a different kind of book than when you're picking something up and you want something that is comfortable and cozy. Enders game, six cents, recontextualize the whole story is on one end of the scale. You can still have different plot twists of, oh, in this romantic comedy, I didn't realize that she actually is a zookeeper,. which doesn't necessarily change the entire thing, but it is going to change a certain aspect of it.
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