Timeline for Too soon for a plot twist?
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| Mar 14, 2019 at 18:55 | vote | accept | Summer | ||
| Mar 9, 2019 at 7:52 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | I think the usual solution is to tell the story of the "new" hero and have him follow the path of the "old" hero and learn about his story while doing so. Maybe with flashbacks or journal entries or such. Then somewhere near the climax discover what happened to the "old" hero thus giving the villain some depth and sympathy by making us familiar with his story and the reasons he failed. If the reasons he failed also seem to apply to the "new" hero, you also get some tension. You can even have the "new" hero also fail. The "real" hero is then somebody else. (cough Mistborn cough) | |
| Mar 9, 2019 at 1:48 | answer | added | Arcanist Lupus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 21:28 | comment | added | Mithoron | Thing is for such structure the story of 1st protagonist should be separate book - so if you're writing a trilogy... Problem is if story of second protagonist will be very similar, it won't work - reader woudn't like to read what is slight retelling of first part. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 19:30 | answer | added | Roman Odaisky | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 17:48 | answer | added | Kevin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 17:00 | answer | added | BKlassen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 15:38 | answer | added | miep | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 12:46 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 12:18 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 12:13 | answer | added | F1Krazy♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 8:41 | answer | added | Niels | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1103898278779731972 | ||
| Mar 8, 2019 at 5:28 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 8, 2019 at 5:25 | answer | added | wetcircuit | timeline score: 20 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 5:24 | answer | added | Rasdashan | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 5:14 | answer | added | Bella Swan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 4:45 | answer | added | xilpex | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 4:10 | history | asked | Summer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |