Eternal misery

Paul Sheldon is the author of the hit series Misery, named after the popular heroine he has begun to hate because it prevents him from devoting himself to his more serious ambition, with the help of which he intends to make a name in the high literature. But at the beginning of the novel, Paul is the victim of a car accident, and he owes his survival only to the initiative of Annie Wilkes, who presents himself as his biggest fan, and who collects it. But she can not bear Paul to have killed her character Misery in her last novel, and she condemns, without appeal, the coarseness of Fast Cars, which she simply asks of burning the manuscript himself under blackmail.
The nurse pretending to be a good Samaritan then proves to be the most cruel torturer, taking care of him on condition of making him dependent on his small pills, sequestering him in his room, and sometimes leaving him several days at the slightest bout of anger . But all this for the good cause: she wants to force him to resurrect Misery by writing a new novel much better. After having bought her an old typewriter that gradually loses certain touches, she pushes him to work, and severely criticizes his first draft, forcing him to resume everything, to recover himself, and this constraint which is exerted by torture curiously becomes the motor of a painful but real inspiration. The new Misery, a few manuscript excerpts are offered to us, turning to the romantic epic, and almost ended by making him forget all the physical sufferings he had to endure to get there, for any attempt at disobedience or flight is immediately sanctioned on his body.