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Yell “Plot Twist” and Move On
When life keeps switching up on you
“I feel like I’m in a tiny box,” I said to my friends. “I’m going crazy in this white cul-de-sac neighborhood. I don’t fit in with these yoga moms. But there’s no way out.”
I reached out to a religious consultant who told me to spend my time developing myself and my own gifts and interests while I was feeling trapped. Basically, to control what I could.
He wasn’t totally wrong.
He did not, however, tell me I could leave. He was a Christian consultant, after all. They don’t generally allow for divorce.
I did need to figure out who I was, and to develop some skills.
I had lost who I was during that marriage, as so many people do.
And the real world was going to hit HARD.
The first tip for writing a plot twist is to don’t be too obvious. Your readers should not be able to see the plot twist coming. It should hit them in the face and make them fall out of their chairs. — English Worksheets Land
We get stuck. We get trapped. We get into a learned helplessness, a rut.
