Cheap trick. I read somewhere that good stories don't have surprises like that, no sudden unveiling of facts at the end to suddenly change the plot - dependent on narrator and point-of-view of course - nothing that should have been previously known 100 pages ago that the author just hid up his sleeve to hit you with at the last moment. You can't always apply that rule, of course, but it's worth thinking about. When I wrote loose crazy fantasy fiction-prose I'd just start with characters and see what they did. Several "novels" worth of that hidden away in old desks on lined paper in longhand. Now and then I experiment with prose outside of the blog but it's much more semi-autobiographical. I think, by the way, sometime I should try my hand at scripts. I watched the House of Yes again last night and I want to read the play it's based on, I think it's a very tight script. But the trick one of them employs is "I have a twin"