How to Reset Your Readers’ Expectations

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In their last in a series of podcasts on setting expectations in your novel, the Writing Excuses hosts discuss what happens when you’re halfway done and realize that the expectations you set at the beginning are not the expectations that are about to pay off in the end.

They discuss how to reset audience expectations, whether mid-story, mid-series, or mid-career, including some strategies for communicating “everything is changing now, forget what you know” without making the audience feel like they’ve been betrayed.