Plot Twister Gifts

"I agree, Glenn. The first sentence needs to hook the reader."

Elevator choices: Up, Down, Different Narrative.

"It's structured as a set of two parallel stories that no one would ever want to read."

"It's the grisly story of the brutal murder of a publisher who rejected a brilliant novel about the brutal murder of a publisher who..."

"Better than Chekhov"

"Chapter Eleven is, in reality, only chapter one."

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

"No, wait. What if the cop character is the murderer, and the mobster guy is completely innocent?"

"I have a movie plot idea... A girl is kidnapped at birth. She's threatened, oppressed, and lives in constant fear. Here's the twist - the kidnapper is only in her mind."

"Is the untrustworthy narrator who hijacked your novel among this group?"

'I can't seem to find the 'surprise' ending.'

'What's the unexpected ending?' - 'The fact that it's not been written.'

'Best Seller'

"We can't put you in a Witness-Protection Program unless you actually witnessed something."

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

'This wasn't quite the fairytale ending that Colin had anticipated...'

-Sorry about yesterday, I was ill! -You didn't look ill when I saw you at the races! -You didn't see me after the fifth leg!

'And I love the part when he finds out that it was his brother all along!'

Book Shop Plot Spoilers

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

"Okay! Okay! It's a draw!"

Curtsey

The Cricketer and the Golfer

"The problem is there's no engine. Just a mysterious plot device."

Jack and the Beanstalk.

'This has a great ending...he shoots her.'

Manager. Managing a political campaign and a baseball team are alike in many ways. A campaign is launched with a "first pitch," when a candidate gives a speech selling himself or herself. I change pitchers based on the game situation. In politics and baseball, sometimes it's best to come from the right side and sometimes it's best to come from the left side. We study our competitors' weaknesses and exploit those. In politics we call that "opposition research." And I don't worry about the

"Well, I was under oath, so I couldn't lie outright, but I'm a weasel of course, so I have a way with words..."

"Better than Chekhov"

"Architectural Digest calls it 'Twilight chic.'"

"He'd torch the castle and I'd rescue the damsel."

"Nothing wrong with half-truths...you still have 50% to manipulate."

Cinema. I won't tell you what happens, but there's a great twist at the end.

"What can I get you?" "An explanation for that dumb reason why Batman and Superman stopped fighting at the end of Batman v Superman." "Would you like that spoiler-filled or spoiler-free?" "Spoiler-filled would be lovely, please." "Ok. Batman did not stop fighting Superman just because both of their moms were named 'Martha.'" "'Martha' was not just a person. In Batman’s nightmares, 'Martha' had come to represent all that was good about him." "When Superman whispered 'Martha,' it did t