Suspension of Disbelief: Never Risk to Lose Your Reader’s Emotional Involvement in Your Story
Coherence, logic, cohesiveness: these are the characteristic of the story that suspends disbelief.
The suspension of disbelief is the readers’ willingness to accept as credible facts and characters they would ordinarily consider incredible.
The suspension of disbelief is an essential part of modern storytelling.
Modern readers know that stories are not facts. They know that events and characters aren’t real, even when they look like they are. Yet readers accept them as real for the duration so to be able to enjoy the story.
