Lesson 13

[Andre]

Andre’s Misdirects…When appropriate!
What I learned is…
Be sparing on the misdirection.
The Value of Misdirection
The value of misdirection is it keeps the audience’s minds looking one way while the real clues are being presented. It keeps the audience from correctly guessing the real answer to the mysteries. And it sets up to be surprised.
Misdirection keeps the audience searching and wondering. It keeps them engaged in the mystery and keeps them on the edge of their seats. But if it is overdone, too much misdirection can confuse the audience, thus having them feel there is something wrong with the writing. I do NOT want that. Confusion is the one emotional state I am not trying to create.

The “Reality” that is a Cover-Up for each Mystery.
• The Villain has a secret.
• He or she covers that secret with a lie or scheme.
• That lie or scheme is presented to the audience as the truth or reality before we even suspect it.

The Villains Plan.
• The Villain has a plan to accomplish some goal that they are willing to kill to achieve. The plan and goal are hidden in an underhanded way. The plan is devious and dangerous to anyone who gets in the way.

Red Herring Character.
• This Character feels guilt or is scheming for some reason other than the crime that is being investigated. So they act an react as if they are hiding something. Many clues point to their guilt. We believe they are guilty. It is not until we discover the real thing they are hiding that we realize they did not commit the crime.

Writer Misdirection
These are things that do not fit into the previous categories that the writer deliberately adds to create misdirection. There are lots of ways to do this…
 Clue Misdirection.
 Misinterpreted clue.
 Clue that sends audience to another potential Red Herring.
 Character Misdirection.
 A Character we do not believe who turns out to be telling the truth.
 Characters jumping to conclusions.
 Characters intentions are misunderstood.
 Character presented as one thing, but turns out to be another.

 Dialogue Misdirection
 A line that was misunderstood.
 Has one meaning now, but another later.
 Sea-men…semen.

ASSIGNMENT
1. Check these three to see how effectively I used misdirection.
• The Red Herring Character.
o The Russian girlfriend.
• The Villain’s plan.
o Storefront USA Inc.
 To divide and conquer. Perpetual Warfare.
 When there is no enemy, make one; even within the ranks, regardless of how unjust.
• The cover-up for each mystery present as “Reality”.
o False freedoms. Freedom is not free.
 Wars of:
• 1782,
• 1812,
• WW1 (1914-1918),
• WW2 (1939-1945),
• Cold War (arguably ww3) (1945/47-1990+/-)
• WW3 (20??-20??)
• WW4 (there will be nothing left for a 4th world war)

2. Look through my Thriller Map for a few opportunities to add in misdirection.
a. Clue Misdirection.
i. Plausible Deniability. When there is no enemy, make one.
1. Our Hero lives in Apartment #28, therefore he must be apart of this threat group.

2. Our Hero’s intelligence is deemed a threat because he does not view Russians as the default “enemy”; hell, just recently his ethnic status was default enemy of US.

Therefore, NATO discrediting him, many years ago, before our story begins.
b. Character Misdirection.
i. Our Hero is collateral damage.
ii. Hero’s girl-friends of another ethnic persuasion.
c. Dialogue Misdirection.
i. Freedom isn’t free.
ii. Virtue signaling…
1. White vs Black. Using skin hues as racial division.
a. Blackmail vs black male.
b. It’s just a little white lie.
c. Diversity hires. Modern day affirmative action.
3. Decide on the ones that work and add them to the Thriller Map.

End Andre's Misdirects…When appropriate!

[Matteo Ribaudo]

Day 13: Misdirecting Your Audience
Lesson taught to use not many or it will get kitschy to add but I do think more to come during the writing process, very similar to misleads and clues.
Misdirections:

1. Check these three to see how effectively you used misdirection
The Red Herring character.
Carlos is jolly heavy set person who is kind. He brings a gun to a jungle hike.
B. The Villain’s plan.
Magdalena is a nurse from the military who seems to be caring and protective of her food source(men) for her daughter to feed on.
C. The cover-up for each mystery present as “Reality.”
2. Look through your Thriller Map for a few opportunities to add in misdirection.

Clue Misdirection.
IV is used to save somebody win the beginning and used to kill somebody in the end.
Medical station is to keep people alive long enough to kill them by draining their blood.
The gun that’s meant to kill Bravo helps save him.
B. Character Misdirection.
All the characters are a misdirection to what is really going to happen.
Bravo our hero is a jerk and learns to rise to the occasion.
Carlos is nice and considerate but has a hidden gripe with our Hero.
Magdalena is a caregiver that feeds and helps the men survive just so she can kill them.
Lilith is sheltered weak, and fragile, but she can run as puma throughout the jungle at night.
C. Dialogue Misdirection.

Bravo says you couldn’t hurt a bug what are you going to do with that gun. Like you could shoot it.

Magdalena says the crocs are the ones who should be worried.

Bravo says he would never be a tour guide and at the end he’s a tour guide to get people for food for Lilith.

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