What it Means to Break the Promise to Your Reader
Don’t do what one author did to me…
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4 min readMay 1, 2024
You’ve probably heard the writing advice to “never break the promise to your reader.”
The promise, in question, is the agreement between the writer and the reader regarding what kind of story you’re going to tell. Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, this can include some elements like genre…
