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Originally Posted by Judoh
I'm not sure what your getting at. Can you explain it to me? What fits?
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A unique approach to mystery writing is available to an author of a serialised mystery text that comes out in instalments if he is able to monitor the audience response and theorising.
This approach consists of creating a text in which a convoluted puzzle is presented,
without thinking of a certain 'correct' answer beforehand, and large sections of text are presented as narration unreliable in one way or another without giving a clear way to determine which narration is reliable and which isn't.
By adjusting further instalments to audience response, so that they deny theories that do not make the author look clever and reinforce ones that do, the author is able to outsource the process of puzzling the readers to readers themselves.
Which is actually, in a sense, the ultimate form of reader trolling if it gets out that the author did anything of the sort.