One of my top writing tips is about how to make the writing of stories with a twist in the tale easier. A twist in the tail of your story is one of the best ways of making it satisfying for the reader.
Quite simply, a twist in the tale means that the readers assumptions up to that point (the tail end of the story) are incorrect. It is not a question of the reader being wrong, it is rather that a natural belief based on the reader’s prejudices or reader’s conventional wisdom’s have led to one point of view which then needs to be revised substantially to an altered viewpoint at the end of the story.
In my flash fiction story My Perfect Lover, we hear about how ideal a lover is and we make assumptions which we then have to change completely in the last line – the twist in the tale.
Here’s the killer writing tip for writing a story with a twist in the tale.
Write it backwards, That’s it. Simple really!
Start by thinking up a number of misconception situations. Here are several examples.
- The man is in fact a woman
- The woman is a man
- The narrator isn’t a human but is instead an animal or an inanimate object like a car
- The time isn’t today but, say, in the Stone Age or 18th century
Keep thinking up misconceptions until you come across one you like and then write your story. The story will end with a sentence that clears up the misconception but, until that point, the story must muddy the issue or, better still, imply the view or misconception that you wish the reader to assume until the last line.
How to put a twist in the tale is one of my top writing tips. I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from it 
Bye for now
Rob