Reversal

Read Esther 4-6

Esther 6:11 "Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour."

If we don’t surprise our readers, they will get bored with our story. One way to surprise them is with a reversal.

While we’re plotting, we will want to come up with as many reversals as we can think of to keep the story going and the readers guessing. We’ll want to brainstorm other twists our story could take and not just be satisfied with the most logical one that pops in to our imaginations.

Then we’ll want to do the opposite of what we’ve come up with in order to work in a reversal, like what Haman experienced. A reversal not only needs to be a good plot twist, but it should send the characters in a different direction or deepen the conflict.