Comments on: Don’t Betray Your Readers https://rachelgraves.com/2011/07/12/don%e2%80%99t-betray-your-readers/ Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Cozy Mysteries, and Paranormal Romance Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: rachelgraves https://rachelgraves.com/2011/07/12/don%e2%80%99t-betray-your-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:43:12 +0000 https://rachelgraves.com/?p=218#comment-277 In reply to Sarah Pearson.

A cheat is a great way to describe it. I feel cheated out of the real way a story should go, or cheated out of the real ending. I’ll admit that I spend a lot of time thinking about how a character should have acted but that’s not the same thing as enjoying the story.

Thanks for commenting.

]]> By: Sarah Pearson https://rachelgraves.com/2011/07/12/don%e2%80%99t-betray-your-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:17:54 +0000 https://rachelgraves.com/?p=218#comment-276 In Stephen King’s ‘Misery’ Annie Wilkes describes a ‘cheat’. I can’t remember the exact wording but she was talking about Saturday morning pictures. One Saturday ended on the hero going over the cliff in a car, the next one began with the car crashed and the hero out before it went over the cliff with no explanation.

Ever since I read that, if I’m in doubt about something I’ve written I always ask myself ‘is it a cheat?’. I’m quick to shout it out about books and films too 🙂

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