Plot Twist Story Prompts: Correct Conspiracy

Plot twist story prompts aren't meant for the beginning or the end of stories. Rather, they're for forcing big and small turns in the anticipated trajectory of a story. This is to make it more interesting for the readers and writers alike.

Each week, I'll provide a new prompt to help twist your story. Find last week's prompt, Unexpected Kiss, here.

For today's prompt, have a conspiracy theory proven true. Of course, the conspiracy theory should be considered extremely improbable if not completely impossible before it is proven true. That's why it would be a plot twist.

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For instance, in a murder mystery, someone makes a comment that some famous person who is in a photograph with the recently deceased must've been the killer, even though there's no logical connection. Everyone scoffs at the assertion, but in the course of investigating the murder it suddenly seems quite evident that the maybe, yes, the famous person is the murderer (or hired someone to commit the murder).

But this scenario could work in other stories as well, and it doesn't need to be a matter of life and death. In a fantasy story, an elf could say that all mountain trolls go to sleep with a fluffy object at night (or else they can't get to sleep). And eventually, don't ask me how, this conspiracy theory is proven correct.

So have a conspiracy theory proven true, and see what happens next.

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Have you hit a wall on your work-in-progress? Maybe you know where you want your characters to end up, but don’t know how to get them there. Or, the story feels a little stale but you still believe in it. Adding a plot twist might be just the solution.

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