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A Fiendishly Clever Ploy
One wonderfully sneaky way to obscure the Villain’s motive is to use a Casualty of War twist.
Dec 30, 2025
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Revealing the Cover for The Tangled Web Twists the Plot!
This week and next I’ll be away from my computer, celebrating Christmas with my family.
Dec 22, 2025
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The Circle & the Cloud
The concept that revolutionized my mystery writing
Dec 15, 2025
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The Hidden Relationship
For today’s twist, we’ll tackle another way of forcing the reader to implicitly disqualify the Villain, by ensuring that she has no way of guessing his…
Dec 4, 2025
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One Slick Twist, Three Ways to Work It
Over the last couple of chapters, we’ve been discussing twists that disqualify the Villain from suspicion based on his role in the story.
Nov 21, 2025
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A Twist That Breaks the Reader's Heart
Last week we spoke about The Sleuth Did It twist, in which we encourage the reader to implicitly disqualify the Villain from suspicion by positioning…
Nov 13, 2025
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The Reader Never Sees This Coming
Our discussion of plot twists has brought us, at long last, to the twist I consider the very best of the bunch—the one that invariably provides both an…
Nov 5, 2025
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A Slick, Structural Trick: The Sidecar Subplot
We’re back, talking about ways to trick your reader into thinking that the Villain in your novel couldn’t possibly be guilty.
Oct 28, 2025
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