Sea Shift: A term used in writing to describe a sudden change in direction.
Like an undertow which often appears calm on the surface is deadly just out of sight because of the returning current off the waves. "An underwater current flowing strongly away from the shore, usually
caused by the seaward return of water from waves that have broken
against the shore." This is not unusual in water. But the redirection or sudden shift is what I'm talking about.
One of the greatest tools available to a writer is misdirection. Making your villain the childhood friend or business partner. Look at the right hand so the audience can't see what the left hand is doing. It builds suspense.
Why do I bring this up?
Well I wanted to include writing tools with my process so I was thinking that I would marry termonology and definitions with the Blog. But this particular addition is because in a recent Google search all the results were about the tidal changes in the North Atlantic, that's off the North East coast of the United States. When I use the term, I could care less about geography.
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