Day 9 Assignments

[David Sylvester]

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