Annie Wilkes on Writing

I've been looking at clips from King books that were made into movies, and one of my favorites is Misery, in part because Cathy Bates is so amazing (she's excellent in the another SK remake, Dolores Claiborne. Here is a clip from Misery where she is explaining to the writer/captive that he can't cheat in his writing; he can't make it all a dream, or give the main character an emergency blood transfusion--he has to figure out a way to get her out of the grave, because that's where the last book ended. I like this advice. You write yourself into a corner, you have to write yourself out. You can't use trickery or fake it, because your reader/audience will call you out.