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Day 9 Assignments
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David Sylvester Twists and Turns
What I learned doing this assignment is…
Read through your Thriller Map and look for places to build in twists.
Use the 14 Types of Twists to brainstorm possible twists. Make sure they have the Current Direction / Twist pattern.
Tell us the places you added twists.
Act 1 –
Direction # Wilma’s calm routine is suddenly jarred
Direction # Wilma’s calm dog is always barking now
Twist # Her dog is killed
Direction # Come out of retirement to help with the investigation
Twist # Wilma’s psychiatrist who insists on a chaos-free life pushes Wilma to help the FBI.
Act 2 –
Twist:# Wilma hides the evidence that points to her.
Direction# The Best friend refers to their “encounter “ the previous night, Wilma has no idea what she’s talking about.
Twist# best friend comes on to her
Direction# Wilma is talking about a hallucination of herself.
Twist # The hallucination has real fingerprints
Act 3
Twist # The psychiatrist is secretly recording Wilma’s sessions for a book deal
Direction # Wilma’s hallucination is real.
Twist hallucination is from a parallel life
Direction# hallucination wants Wilma’s life
Direction # Wilma is being framed as the serial killer
Twist # Hallucination will be free after Wilma is killed by the FBI as the serial killer
Include the new version of your Thriller Map.
OPENING: Wilma is running from someone, afraid for her life. She raises the gun and shoots.
Life Threatening #1: Wilma is all alone and the serial killer is hunting. Her
Act 1-
Direction # Wilma’s calm dog is always Barking
Mystery # who killed Wilma’s dog?
Mystery # items moved around the house
Mystery # Wilma is having dreams about killings
Direction # Wilma’s calm routine is suddenly jarred
Twist # Her dog is killed
INCITING INCIDENT: Her FBI friend asks her for her help on a new serial killer case.
Twist # Wilma’s psychiatrist pushes Wilma to help the FBI.
TURNING POINT 1: She actively investigate the case
Life Threatening #Is Wilma’s PTSD coming back
Mystery crime evidence that points to Wilma
Twist:# Wilma hides the evidence that points to her.
Direction# The Best friend refers to their “encounter “ the previous night, Wilma has no idea what she’s talking about.
Twist# best friend comes on to her
Villain’s Plan #. Make Wilma seems to be mentally unstable.
Direction# Wilma is talking to a hallucination of herself.
Twist # The hallucination has real fingerprints
Twist # The psychiatrist is secretly recording Wilma’s sessions for a book deal
MIDPOINT: her husband is murdered in their bed
Mystery # who murdered her husband
Life-Threatening #3 Wilma is the prime suspect
Mystery #Wilma’s hallucination her have fingerprints
Direction # Wilma’s hallucination is real.
Twist hallucination is from a parallel life
Direction# hallucination wants Wilma’s life
Direction # Wilma is being framed as the serial killer
Twist # Hallucination will be free after Wilma is killed by the FBI as the serial killer
TURNING POINT 2 Wilma realizes that her hallucination is real..herself from a parallel life that’s doing all the killings
CLIMAX: chasing the serial killer
Life Threatening #4 The serial killer iis setting her up
Wilma chases the serial killer and shoots the serial killer
RESOLUTION: Wilma wakes up in the hospital in the serial killer’s timeline getting everything she dreamed of
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