Sticking to Reality

Writing a new story can be really hard for me sometimes. Mostly because you never really know when you have crossed that line of reality. Being a work of fiction, I should have liberty to write whatever I want, right? Wrong. I have found that the further you stray from reality the less your readers like it. It's true. Unless you are writing something within a sci-fi genre, when you are writing novels, you have to stick with what would really happen. Therefore, when you are working with a story and one of your characters is a psychiatrist, you have to research the elements of the story they are involved in. The problem is when you get to a point of the story when you are not sure if you are being realistic, and you can't find help through the web. Then, your options become such that you have to start making contact with real people, who can tell you if it is realistic or not. You don't just write a novel. There is a lot of research that goes into everything, and when you step outside of those realms of reality, you get a lot of criticism. Trust me. I know!