For me, I have sO many plot twists in the story I'm working on. But the most influential and game-changing one is when my protag, Ezra, realizes that his whole life, he has been raised to believe he is a warlock of an ice element, when really, he's an eternal who has the element of fire. The revelation is shocking for him, but once he gets the hang of how much power he truly possesses, AH it's so great!!
I kind of have quite a few plot twists I've written up in my fanfictions.
uh, when nova, THE PROTAGONIST, dies halfway through the novel. i mean that was a shock to me. i love plot twists, so my novels are riddled with them.
@cami I know right! I have sOo many including deaths, true backgrounds, etc… I have so many and even I make myself shook with them lol
I'd say the only real plot twist in my story is when I separate my two main characters right before the climax is supposed to happen. One gets taken and held prisoner by the main villain while the other has to forge onward alone. I think it overall made the story more interesting and led to some of the emotional high points of the novel!
On of the plot twists i wrote in a short story was the main charecter started the hero but by the end you could see they where the villan. Every villan is a hero in there own mind
Ok, so theres this assassin dude at the very beginning of my story and he shows up and kills a bunch of people and that starts the main character on her quest. Then a WHILE later, she ends up meeting this one guy who's like, "Oh, you're orphaned? Well I'm sure my family would accept you" and, you guessed it, his dad is Mr. Assassin. He's a pretty chill hufflepuff who loves his children.
Probably the biggest Plot Twist Ive ever written was one of my most innocent characters having a bad side. That sounds like a classic "Oh look. Good person turns bad, blah blah blah." Nope! It was a huge turn of events and actually effected lots of people, including her crush.
Biggest twist I've ever written is probably in the first book I ever wrote, where it's revealed that the main character's best friend was only using them to get what they wanted. I made the friend really lovable and awkward too, to make sure you didn't suspect them.
Best plot twist? Definitely when it was revealed that the protagonist was
w h o o p s
I turned my protagonist to a girl. I mean, she always was a girl, but she looked like a boy and show herself as one, because she had to hide her identity. It was quiet funny because one of the other Charakters slowly felt in love with her when she appeared as a boy.
I wrote a 200-page novel once just so I could build up into a super-tense moment (some terrorists shooting up an elementary school)… and then transition mid-sentence into the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lyrics with several blank pages after.
Not sure if that counts though. :)
Quick summary: When my character found out that her boyfriend was her brother and he knew all along. She stabbed him.
(don't judge me xD)
On of the plot twists i wrote in a short story was the main charecter started the hero but by the end you could see they where the villan. Every villan is a hero in there own mind
–Nice villian/hero quote. Tumblr??
When the main character dies after everything she's been through
i love emotional plot twists, like, so much. my current favorite is having the most cautious, skeptical, borderline-cowardly character force himself to lose everything for the greater good. He has to physically tear his daughter away from him and place all his faith in there being something //better// out there (not metaphorically, literally) while assuming he'll never see her again if he does. It's shitty and awful and i love it.
Maybe when it's discovered that the mother of my main character isn't actually her mother and also she's the main villain. You don't suspect her at all because you only see her like once at the very beginning of the novel and she's super nice and then BAM she shows up at the end being all evil and whatnot. Now that I think about it it's all terribly cliche…
It is revealed that the main character's best friend and mentor is actually the main antagonist, and has been for most of the story (it's complicated, and involves a demon possession).
Demon possession, fun.
I know, right?
Murder Mystery book: And they all lived happily ever after.
Another plot twist was when my protagonist realized that who she worked for—who she represented and stood for—was not what she thought, but by then it was too late. She dies saving her friend.
(Question, should she come back in book 2?)
My favorite plot twist I've written so far? Chapter one was a dream…well…so the main character thinks.
I think my favorite is from a fanfiction. The first line of the story is, "God, I feel like I've been hit with a train." The last lines are, "Wh-What happened? Where am I? Is this a hospital?" "Miss, please, calm down. You've been in a coma for the past three weeks." "How? What happened?" She looks at me, shocked. "You don't remember?" she asks, gently resting her hand on my own. Our eyes lock and she sighs. "Miss, you tried to kill yourself by jumping in front of a train."
i think the biggest plot twist i've ever made, was a situtation in a group of friends where everybody thought that one of them was an a-hole, but in the end she turned out to have been possessed time to time by a demon. it does'nt sound all that exciting now, but a lot of my friends reactions when reading it was just complete shock.
My best plot twist is this girl she has thought her whole life that her parents are regular people but she was actually adopted by them when her parents became the rulers of another world and the wanted her out of danger, but then her parents are actually crap people. Also, her sister ends up being the central antagonist so…
Favorite plot twist… I guess it would be the fact that I wrote a misleading storyline, in the pov of a 'supporting' character, the 'protagonists' cousin. Decoy Protagonist. The supporting character is the main character, which is realized by readers somewhere halfway or at the end of the book. That's not actually the truth. I wrote that novel with the thought in mind that I wanted them all to be main characters in their own right. I had an existential crisis while writing it, and after reading a WikiHow article on how to cope with it, I wrote a novel. The existential crisis was one of the best and worst things to ever happen to me.
@Astrid I wouldn't bring her back in the second book. Everyone's always reviving their characters. It loses it's novelty factor after a while.
I have had a lot of plot twists…
I think two of my biggest ones are when one
My favorite plot twist happens around the middle of a story/comic thing I've been writing. Basically, the backstory of all of the characters will be hidden until a ways into the story, so the reader will wonder
a). Why does Penny hate Reylo so much?
b). Why is Reylo so glad to see Ren and why did he think she was dead?
c.). Who is Emma?
d). Who is Ky-Ben and why do Aniko and Leila want to get to him?
e). Who is Anika, and why does Ren seem to have some connection with her?
f). What is the Regime and why do the characters dislike it, especially Reylo and Penny?
And then it will all be revealed to readers later on. The reason why I consider this a plot twist is because I leave the reader to judge for themselves the answers to these questions, and sometimes, they may be surprised by the truth.