This is something that I don't really see or do much in my own writing, but it's still just a nice bit of advice regardless. Basically, what I'm going to be saying in this part is that you need to make sure that you're writing is understandable before anything else. There's no need to use big fancy words in your writing most of the time whenever simpler ones will do just fine. Some people like to use big words in effort to sound smart but, on the off chance they're even using them correctly in some cases, it really just makes you sound pretentious when people actually figure out what you're trying to say.
Another thing that can be said from this is advice on how to write twists in your works. I read/heard somewhere that, strangely, a good twist is one the audience should see coming. It should be set up earlier in the story, but subtle enough to where it's on the second or third time through the person sees the signs of it. This is one of the main criticisms of M Night Shaymalan is that he just throws in a twist in his movies for the sake of having a twist rather than actually building it over the course of his movies. An honestly good example of a twist working out, even if it has led to subpar attempts at recreations, is Hans being the twist villain of Frozen. When you first meet him as a character, he seems nice enough if a bit unsure about himself as the youngest brother and the last in a long line of succession. He seems honest and genuine about who he is and his feelings for Anna, but once you learn later in the movie that he's just trying to use her to become a king, you can see how his words were subtle manipulations to get Anna to basically hand over the kingdom to him once he got rid of Elsa.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkg3Dd3AEV6
Another poor example comes from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 with their big villain reveal that it was Flint's hero, Chester V. The big issue is not the fact that it was predictable, since you should be able to pic up on it, but rather the fact that their hints were about as subtle as an eighteen-wheeler going over a bumpy road, but they already had Chester V established as the villain in the beginning of the movie. There was no need to make this big scene as if it was a sudden twist for the audience that the villain was Chester V when they TOLD US IN THE FIRST FIFTEEN MINUTES! Even if it was a crappy twist just for the sake of it, it would've been better than them trying to make a twist out of something the audience already knew.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBo89jOITH7
Back onto the subject of clarity before cleverness, the example I saw when I first saw this bit of advice was an example of an unnecessary way to write that someone rolled their eyes. I don't remember if the color was an issue but I can't talk much since my main OC is described as having a cerulean blue eye color, but I make sure that the color is stated as blue even if the reader doesn't quite know what cerulean blue looks like (best color of blue, if you don't know what it looks like, check it out). But the actual act of the eye rolling was written describing the eyes as 'orbs' and something to the effect of 'rotated in their sockets towards the ceiling.' Completely unnecessary and frivolous way to say that someone rolled their eyes. At least if someone's being redundant, it's really not that bad compared to if someone is obviously just trying to use big words to make themselves seem intelligent (for the record I was going to use the word 'pontificating' here, but thought better of it as it wasn't necessary).113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJky6EOO5N
Basically, when you write, don't worry about not using big fancy words to describe something. Most people usually don't use them in their day-to-day conversations, and when they do the rest of us just look at them and roll our eyes. If you've got a character who you want to be like this, then by all means, have fun and make sure you are actually using those words correctly, unless you want them to be saying them for the sake of sounding smart when they're not.113Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1g9wlVVu2t
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