#and she was the first female sfwa grandmaster

[tlaquetzqui]

So a piece of “writing advice” I came across was to have your character want something, and then, right when it seems they’re about to get it, yank it away.

Which…what? “Haha, it looked like things were leading up to a satisfying payoff but they didn’t, I’m so brilliant for subverting your expectations!”

That’s just asking the reader to fantasize about eviscerating you. Like that as you stand there with your chitlins uncoiling onto the ground, you hear them, with the part of your awareness that’s not too busy dying, say, “Haha, it looked like you were going to make it to tomorrow with your innards on the inside, but you didn’t, I’m so brilliant for subverting your expectations!”

#god i fucking hate plot twists for the sake of plot twists #MAYBE this meant like at the beginning and then have the character have to recover from it #but honestly a twist like that right at the beginning is only better for having wasted less of my time #that's also one of the lesser problems of isekai #that you establish the protagonist in this world and THEN send them to another #just have them be from there you idiot #even andre norton had that problem in the first witch world novel #and she was the first female sfwa grandmaster #and that was back when that meant something #never waste your reader's time