As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.