How do you reveal a mystery or a truth or an unknown information to the audience?
Remember these words.
"The controlled release of information".
We're not going to tell the audience what we want to tell them.
We're gonna let the audience figure it out themselves and this is how we're gonna do it.
I'm Joe Webb, a storyteller.
Learn to write fiction properly.
So we're not gonna tell them what we want to tell them.
We're not even gonna tell them that there is something to know.
Let's first define what we mean by mystery or truth.
The thing that we want to reveal to the audience.
This could be an event that the audience don't know of
that happened in the past, or is happening now, or is going, to happen.
This can be a truth, a fact about something.
Think of all of this, everything that we're gonna tell the audience
as a big puzzle piece that's made up of little tiny squares that will all fit together
and what we've done is, before we've even started the story
we've taken this big puzzle and we've
shattered and and scattered all the pieces of that big picture all over the
place into little tiny pieces of information or puzzle pieces that don't
fit together and the audience don't even know about it, they don't even know that
there's a puzzle to be put together.
They can't see these puzzle pieces.
These pieces of information.
They don't even know they are there.
What you as a writer are doing throughout the story
is saying to the audience "hey look there is a little piece of a puzzle".
You don't have to say what it is.
You don't even have to say that it's relevant
you just show it to them. "Look".
Then you let the audience see what they think of it.
You don't tell them anything you just show them
and then a little bit later on in the story
you show them another piece. "Look".
Another insight to the big picture whatever it is
that you want to reveal but you don't say anything, you don't tell and tell
them what it is, you don't even say that there's a puzzle to put together.
You just show them the puzzle piece and the audience go
"oh, okay".
Some might start to think
"Hang on, there's something here that I don't know. There must be more pieces there must be a big picture".
so a little bit later on in the story, show them another puzzle piece.
All up until now they seem irrelevant.
No attention has been drawn to them, you've just shown them
for them to see if they want to see
and the audience will start to see patterns.
The audience will think "why am I seeing more of these random things?"
"Do they connect somehow?"
As you get to the end of the story, you've saved the most
important puzzle pieces, the most revealing puzzle pieces to the audience.
The big reveals.
The things that connect all of the other ones.
Towards the middle and the end of the story that's when you start
to show them the bigger pieces and
by this point the audience will have seen all of the other little scattered pieces
that you've shown them and have started to realize that they connect and
that there's a puzzle that they haven't put together
and they're looking for the the missing parts to connect the dots to
find the bigger picture and towards the end of the story that's when you reveal
these big revealing puzzle pieces.
The things that connect the dots
and that lets the audience connect the puzzle piece with the rest of the story
and all the rest of the puzzle pieces that they've put together and that is
how you're supposed to reveal and mystery or an unknown truth.
You don't do it all in one and you don't even tell them what it is.
I'm Joe Webb, a storyteller.
Learn to write fiction properly.