I think a lot of authors feel there must necessarily be some kind of a twist in their stories--but all stories can't support them, so instead you get the "next best" thing, which is to obfuscate a bunch of information to make it feel twisty. (Sometimes this goes so far as to take the form of first-person narrators deliberately hiding super relevant facts from the audience, or the author hiding an important party's identity through seedy pronoun avoidance--the worst of a bad lot.) This drives me nuts, because it's obviously contrived, and because it's equally obviously unnecessary. A good story will hold up its own weight without all that.
My own writing became substantially unburdened when I stopped trying to work in the mind-blowing twist into every ending. That isn't what endings are for, after all.
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Date: 2015-05-15 01:50 pm (UTC)My own writing became substantially unburdened when I stopped trying to work in the mind-blowing twist into every ending. That isn't what endings are for, after all.