OOTS #1232 - The Discussion Thread

[Worldsong]

Is it lying if you're an author trying to preserve suspense for a work you haven't finished yet and so you don't tell your readers everything you know about the real plan?
Or if you change your mind after you wrote something and the plot ends up going a different way than you first thought it would?

When an author tries to preserve the suspense of their work they do so by being intentionally vague about it, not giving a detailed explanations about how it works and then later on have it work completely differently instead. Of course, an author could give an intentionally wrong explanation to throw people off, but that would be lying.