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Topic : Re: Plot twist where the antagonist wins I’m putting together this story and its formative stages are almost complete. However, I am genuinely interested as to how the ending would appear to the - selfpublishingguru.com

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It can definitely be done well. But there's a big pitfall you have to watch out for. You need to have some thematic reason for the protagonist to lose. Some character fault or thematic point you're making that causes his defeat. He can't simply lose. If there's no meaningful reason for his defeat, if he is just simply outmatched, your audience will wonder what the point was.

To combat this, you should have the character make mistakes due to his flaws or the theme of the story that set up his failure. Maybe he breaks a promise he thought was unimportant and the person he slighted betrays him. Maybe he's selfish and alienates his allies. Maybe he underestimates just how low the villain is willing to stoop to win.


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