I'm so sorry if this topic has been done to death. I don't really write horror 
I do have a creature. I'm basing my WIP on specific Transilvanian folklore that is very obscure.
How do you resolve differences between reader expectation and how your novel really goes?
My specific example is how I started my WIP. The MC dies in an accident, doesn't know she is dead, but she soon learns that she is supernatural because she turns into something.
I had a wolf (all of this is from the folklore).
She can and will also turn into a sort of creepy, old-time vampire and a ghoul-like creature.
I'm realizing that starting with the most unfamiliar might be how to let readers know that I'm not playing on the familiar folklore.
Thoughts? If you have used 'new' ideas with vampires or werewolves, how do you keep the reader from using their own ideas about those creatures?
I do have a creature. I'm basing my WIP on specific Transilvanian folklore that is very obscure.
How do you resolve differences between reader expectation and how your novel really goes?
My specific example is how I started my WIP. The MC dies in an accident, doesn't know she is dead, but she soon learns that she is supernatural because she turns into something.
I had a wolf (all of this is from the folklore).
She can and will also turn into a sort of creepy, old-time vampire and a ghoul-like creature.
I'm realizing that starting with the most unfamiliar might be how to let readers know that I'm not playing on the familiar folklore.
Thoughts? If you have used 'new' ideas with vampires or werewolves, how do you keep the reader from using their own ideas about those creatures?
