I believe the twist ending should and would work with novella and below. Anything that didn't take long to read through would be easy enough to plan out the entire thing around the twist.Uhn... I'm not sure a twist is the ideal thing for an ending... I mean, twists are good, but wouldn't it be better to put them in the middle of your story instead of the very end?
Best thing I can think of is painting the scenario where all is doom and gloom, when the heroes are about to be defeated, until they suddenly make a miraculous comeback!
... Except this isn't a twist, it's the expected thing to happen.
Don't listen to these nerds yo...just drop it out of the blue.Suppose, you wrote a story and it is time to finish it but you want to finish it with a twist. How do you do it?
Oh yeah, short stories are easier to plan around a twist~I believe the twist ending should and would work with novella and below. Anything that didn't take long to read through would be easy enough to plan out the entire thing around the twist.
There was a game once that really amazed me by doing exactly this. The villain explained throughout the game, that victory was impossible. However, it was a hero saves the day story, so when the hero insisted they'd find a way, I just assumed they would. Then at the end, when the villain won, I was amazed. They told me they were going to do it, I just didn't believe them.The real plot twist is not having a twist at all and letting it play out exactly by all appearances it should play out.
Well, that's kinda a spoiler for the game...I mean you can't just describe this and then NOT say what the game is...
Play with the little details in your earlier chapter. Don't make things obvious and near the end connect the dots. Don't overload the detail, let the readers arrive on their own conclusions through scenes and words. In the end blast them with your own twist. Delivery is the key, not the twist itself.Suppose, you wrote a story and it is time to finish it but you want to finish it with a twist. How do you do it?