Author 's are obligated to maintain the illusion that they create in their stories. Readers have a certain level of impatience to realism when reading a novel. All novels are illusions in a sense. They also are a sense-learned activity. All novels and novelists are also influenced by other novels, whether they agree or not. This means that the novel has to portray information or events in a way that is most realistic for the reader to understand. This rule does not apply in metafiction. Metafiction is a type of fiction in which the author alludes to the illusion of a novel by bending the normal rules and conventions in place for a realistic …show more content…
An idea can never be discounted in a fiction novel. Foster states, "Writers have in common the making of fiction is response to what history has handed them." The ability of a writer to bring broad ranges of experience to the same level of an idividual reader is the most important part of a novel. There is always one main idea in a novel: what does it mean to be human and how can we change our lives to best effect? A writer 's life also shows influence in their work. Foster also says that there is a "Law of Fictional Ideation". This states that it doesn 't matter how good the philosophy is in a novel if the fiction is