Bungee jumping, sky diving, secret mission, Indy 500: how do these events compare to the art of fiction writing? Each one brings to its doer an element of anticipation, exhilaration, unfamiliarity, and adventure. A pure adrenaline rush. And as a writer of fiction, this is the plateau you want your readers to knowledge.

Straying from the anticipated ending to a twist makes for dazzling reading, pleasing the editor, and upping your chance of acquiring accepted. But be wary. Your twist should conform along the lines of the story you have crafted thus far. Not an brain friendly task to accomplish, but plausible.

For example: fifteen-year-old John stole the answers to his exam from his teachers desk. Throughout the storyline, John has been portrayed as a bully but every so fairly often the writer has offered either flashbacks or little inconspicuous hints into Johns childhood. The readers assumes that John will either get away with it, or get caught and suspended. The author has gripped the readers into continuing the book to see where this will end up. Here comes the twist.

Because of these rare flashback insights, weve seen another side to John that, although subtle, its still there. So when John ends up affixing the answers back with no one being the wiser, the reader is stunned, surprised, but content with this twist ending because it has been subliminally make into the plot.

If the writers portrayal of John had been exclusively bullish, mean-spirited, unfriendly throughout then the readers reaction would have been stunned, surprised and obviously, left cheated with an ending that holds no basis with the rest of the storyline.

This is called character reversal, when the character reacts different than what the readers expected. And to pull it off, you must have planted subtle seeds along the way.

Does this affect your plot down the line? In certain circumstances, yes. For example:

Bruce is a studious clean-cut senior high school student. Hes portrayed as the geek for most of the story, not a main character at all. Then the writer decides to spruce things up and throws a dare at Bruce. Bruce accepts. He takes his friends ID and goes to a Rave. Big bad choice , but a twist for the readers . The Rave is raided, Bruce ends up in jail because his friend is wanted by the police and hes holding the fake id. He escapes and now tries to clear his name that somehow has crept into the police files. A sedate YA high school book has now turned into a suspense novel all because of a character reversal.

When writing up your character(s) sketch, try to include opposite reactions, as well. By doing this, you can easily plot foreshadowing more convincingly ahead of the game.

Remember that fiction is commonly, if not all the instant, crafted out of real people, real situations or real events. So think of a real person and envision his reaction to several possible finales to a dilemma. Then initial crafting the ending with one of these reactions while dropping subtle hints to a totally different ending than what your readers is expecting. Try to make use of this character reversal for a completely out of this world awesome ending.

Make sure your story propels forward, creating your readers want to turn the page. Bungee jump them out of a plane into a secret pathway that will drive them to the finish line.

Authors Bio: Author of THE ROCK OF REALM, http://rockofrealmnovel.tripod.com, Editor in Chief and co-founder of 2 Writers Digest 101 Best Writing Sites of 2005: Apollos Lyre,http://www.apolloslyre.com and The MuseItUp Club,http://museitupclub.tripod.com