Plot Twist Story Prompts: Secret Society

Plot twist story prompts aren't meant for the beginning or the end of stories. Rather, they're for forcing big and small turns in the anticipated trajectory of a story. This is to make it more interesting for the readers and writers alike.

Each week, I'll provide a new prompt to help twist your story. Find last week's prompt, Character Off, here.

For today's prompt, reveal a secret society. It could be a fancy secret society, but it could also be referred to as a club, gang, cult, etc. It's a secret group that does secretly in secret (for good or bad).

(Dark Secrets and Dastardly Lies: Ramping Up a Killer Plot.)

Many people in the real world believe there are secret groups that control everything and everyone all the time in every situation. Others just believe there are secret groups impacting specific situations. And still others believe some people have too much imagination when it comes to conspiracy theories.

But for this plot twist, you actually reveal that at least one (but maybe more) secret society actually does exist. Do they work for good? For bad? Or do they take themselves seriously when really they're kind of a joke? These are the things you (and your characters) get to discover in your story.

So reveal a secret society, and see what happens next.

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Have you hit a wall on your work-in-progress? Maybe you know where you want your characters to end up, but don’t know how to get them there. Or, the story feels a little stale but you still believe in it. Adding a plot twist might be just the solution.

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