Believability, when used in a writing context, is to add realism or at least be relatable to the reader. If the reader can’t reason out the plot or the characters in a logical context, the story becomes harder to read. The story has to stay consistent with its own set of rules.
Having a believable plot is essential to any story. If the reader has a hard time understanding a fantastical plot not following any rules of reality the writer has failed. Not to say a story can’t have fantastical elements and no concept of our reality in their story. A story can make up its own set of rules, but it then has to follow them, it can’t bend the rules. The story must stay consistent in terms of plot and character development.
Character development and having a relatable character is essential to having a reader’s interest in a story’s characters. Once a character breaks their story’s established rules, and falls out of character, it ruins all the character development that the character has under gone so far. The character can’t act out of character so to speak.
A story’s consistency with its own set of rules for both the playing out of the plot and character development will go a long way in terms of making the story believable to the reader.
-Phillip Cobey
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