Question about development in my book?
Hello, I'm writing a book and I'm almost finished with the story.
It's about 350 pages long. I'm currently revising it, and I have to decide whether I want to add an additional plot twist. It's set in a dictatorship and is about a boy who has the power to overthrow it. He's picked up by rebels and embarks on a journey with one of them.
Strange things often happen, including a situation where he watches soldiers trample an old woman.
The rebel he's traveling with doesn't let the boy intervene, and it's ultimately too late to save her. This death fuels hatred of the Empire in the main character, and he constantly reminds himself of it.
Now I had the idea that it turns out that they weren't real soldiers, but just disguised rebels, who were supposed to fuel this hatred so that the character would be motivated to cooperate. That would mean a huge loss of trust, since the rebels would have sacrificed an innocent. But I don't know if it's worth adding that now. What do you think? (The plot was really poorly described)
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Such a turn of events can, of course, make the plot more interesting and also enrich as your protagonist has to face an additional challenge (besides the other things that have happened so far) – How does he deal with this terrible truth? What does that mean to be able to trust in his capacity in the future “allies”?
In general, I would say that it is worth building a twist. However, you must also be sure that your original goal of the action does not deviate too much from your basic idea, or whether you may even be willing to target another goal (as a different end of history). However, if the end has to arrive absolutely as you have planned, make sure that this change is really credible, or whether you have to bend too much so that it fits to the planned process. Example: The protagonist is so disgusted by this human sacrifice by the rebels who do not behave better like the dictator’s troops – so it is less likely that he will continue to help the rebels (in any case less credible than before) But if the end now provides, for example, that he will fight in deep confidence and persuasion for the right thing to build up his own militiacion, the old villagers he would make it less credible if he no longer trusts the rebels or looks at them as murderers as well as the others. Maybe it’s a bit complicated about me.
But there is nothing against jungling with the idea of the Plottwist, because it can be a profit for the history and development of the hero. I would not, however, attempt by force to incorporate something that might sound really interesting but to make too many changes and adjustments necessary.
Wish you a lot of success for your story and a lot of fun in writing 🙂
It depends on how you want to represent the rebels or. what questions you want to raise with history.
When you build this twist, rebels are not just the good ones, but also the bad ones.
In addition, the question is raised how far it is correct or just wrong to sacrifice an innocent person to save so many people. (Theoretically, you could do it so that the old woman has sacrificed herself voluntarily, but then it is a completely different subject.) So it would be interesting to bring it in.
Of course, you have to ask yourself how logical it is. Does the empire not even make any bad things that could be shown to the boy for illustration? In addition, it is a lot of effort and a very striking action (to disguise a whole horde as soldiers of the empire and then to let go through in the right timing, where you might also get caught), for that you have to hope that this hate will then be really constricted or strong enough.
Theoretically, it could raise the main character (for a variety of reasons) even more “cold” or the wrong emotions (two or fear) or what if it recognizes one of the soldiers among the rebels?
It would thus perhaps be better to implement the twist differently, for example a person who is important to him (maybe a rebel) and he thinks first that it was a soldier of the empire, as the dying person has said so to him, but in the end it turns out that it was another rebel and he was killed, for example, to lure the imperium’s soldiers on a false ferry or to save him for a suspicion of betrayal or he was not particularly capable of. Only one rebel would have to dress up and the results would be much more predictable.
Hey!
So personally, I find this Plottwist incredible. When I just read your book description and then the Twist came, I really thought briefly “What?!” (but in the good sense😅). And that’s exactly what a twist in the reader should trigger! Make him! He throws the whole story over the heap again and surely triggers a fierce inner conflict in your main character, if not even a dilemma.
So, make the twist absolutely, he’s really cool!
P.S.: Will the book be published sometime? I would like to read it!😅
LG😊
I would also like to read it 😃
In his works, he goes on. The life-threatening aggressiveness. Love for life.
In your work they talk about a dictatorship and rebels. It is not described whether it is a constructive dictatorship (as I love it, the dictatorship of reason) or a destructive dictatorship (as a hypodemocracy of fascism).
It is also open whether there are otherwise constructive rebels or are only a mask wheel of the right of appearance of self-signed destructive forces.
E. From wrote your book. About obedience.
I only know one thing: a book is written from the front to the back. But every writer who doesn’t know how his story ends, he can hardly convince his readers, let alone surprise. Every reader and every audience wants not only to entertain, but also to be surprised.
I know how it ends. It’s done, but I could keep building this twist. That was the question
Build it. But let your book read back – in no case but by good friends or friends.
I’d like to get
Yes add a plot twist is always quite exciting then you get even more incentive on than next part