3 tips for doing plot twists and twisted events properly

Readers love to joke about how cruel their authors are in tormenting or killing their favorite characters.

But if you don’t handle the plot twists — or twistedness — correctly, then it’s not a joke any longer.

Writer’s Digest editor Moriah Richard has a way to avoid that: ensure that there’s an actual meaning to the literally or figuratively shocking events in your novel.

Read her three strategies for ensuring twists have meaning at Writer’s Digest.

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