trusting fiction

[queenlua]

i tried to write about how i felt after finishing a really good manga tonight, and it was supposed to be like, half a paragraph (hence, typing it up on Tumblr)

...but then i apparently needed to get a bunch of Literary Musings down before i could just talk about my feelings like a normal person, so

here's that post—about the many ways that an author can earn a reader's trust, and how something almost-like-trust can be very very good too.

Comments

[lassarina]

*chinprop*

I love this idea, of trust in the author. There are some authors I do trust. There are some where I cannot make it past the first page. and now I'm thinking about how to make this work in my own writing.