Working on a short story, play, or screenplay? Unable to find an appropriate pivotal event for your final act?
Look no further. I give you Harvet Ismuth's 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists (As performed by the Ellis Island Community Players)
Choose your genre—Tragedy? Sci-fi? Thriller?—and you'll find a number of pertinent suggestions for your third-act plot twist. They're arranged in nice thematic categories for you, ranging from the Petard Hoist ("Food starts eating people.") to the Shyamalan ("Devil deal backfires.") to the nefarious Double Shyamalan ("Devil actually autistic boy.").
Enjoy.
Jeff, this is AMAZING! My personal favorites are "Unintentional Incest" and "Schadenfreude Proves Unruly."
ReplyDeleteYou should share this with Steve Galloway...
Dresdan Codak in general is amazing. Check out "Caveman Science Fiction."
ReplyDeleteOh man. I love the "Caveman Science Fiction" one.
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There are some hilarious ones involve Tiny Carl Jung and Tiny Heisenburg.
ReplyDeleteI loved this too, actually saw it on another site a few days before it popped up here. Small internet world! I love the visual for "Amnesiac kidnaps self", he looks so indignant.
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