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Feb. 22nd, 2010

Picked this up from

jimhines .

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wanders off contemplating the agonies you could suffer in a fairy tale romance

Another reversal trick starts much earlier in the story. When you know something will be needed in the future of the story, introduce it as the opposite of what it will turn out to be.

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fairy tale romance
reversal, revisited

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