tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post293911757393888023..comments2024-03-08T05:24:28.285-05:00Comments on Nevets.QST: Thoughts on Genre Wars PiecesC. N. Nevetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375714948653196993noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-52244957241904013432010-01-15T08:42:06.747-05:002010-01-15T08:42:06.747-05:00Darn categories is right, Michelle. This is why I...Darn categories is right, Michelle. This is why I love spending horus upon hours (ask my wife, I do not exaggerate) tinkering with my iTunes library, but music lets me refine genre way more than writing does. lol<br /><br />Davin, it's weird but since I write from the idea, rather than from the details, I can enjoy writing a story almost any way. I have another story that will hopefully someday see publication, that I once re-wrote in five or six different genres just to see, and I had a blast with all of them. The important things to me were the characters and the ideas.C. N. Nevetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00375714948653196993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-37949553726010153722010-01-14T20:28:54.368-05:002010-01-14T20:28:54.368-05:00Very interesting post! I think the deeper question...Very interesting post! I think the deeper question here is why you want to write what you do. If you are writing genre fiction because it's more fun for you, then carry on. If, the genre is forcing you to write something you don't actually want to write, then maybe you should consider your writing genre-less or a hybrid. I guess you already do to some extent, but maybe you can do it more. Your talent, hopefully, will develop in whatever style you prefer to write in. I hope that's my case as well, because I find that writing in first person is something that always garnered more compliments, but writing in an omniscient POV is something I really want to do.Davin Malasarnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09385823575081492949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-31268348320416099082010-01-14T19:56:26.824-05:002010-01-14T19:56:26.824-05:00I can see why you put the story in Experimental, b...I can see why you put the story in Experimental, but it could go the other way, too. Darn categories. :DMichelle D. Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696465137285587646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-13635116709489866932010-01-14T19:36:14.452-05:002010-01-14T19:36:14.452-05:00Great thoughts, Michelle and B. The challenge for...Great thoughts, Michelle and B. The challenge for me is two-fold. I fully accept that it's not simple to pigeonhole a piece of writing, but (a) it sure helps for marketting and submitting if you know what to call it and therefore where to send it, and (b) I am by nature taxonomically inclined. I categorize the crap out of everything. And, yes, I know taxonomy is inductive, and I just said I'm deductive. It gives me more fits than you might believe.<br /><br />As for "DBNM," Michelle, I called it experimental, because it's told in a bit of an an in-an-out way with the action carried almost entirely by snips of dialogue with no tags and the plot really unfolding behind the the thoughts. Maybe it's not too experimental, but I wasn't sure it was purely literary because of the structure.<br /><br />Ugh. If if were just a matter of writing whatever and sending it to whoever and getting published as long as it was good-for-something this wouldn't be too terribly important.<br /><br />Though, it goes to the question, B., of "what I'm good at." And because of my taxonomic hangup... Again, ugh.C. N. Nevetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00375714948653196993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-24108258285122449832010-01-14T18:36:12.924-05:002010-01-14T18:36:12.924-05:00I would hesitate to step away from the psychologic...I would hesitate to step away from the psychological nametag. While I remember your shorts as intelligent and philosophically active, I also remember them as dark and suspensey. <br /><br />All writing is literature, and therefore literary. Literary Fiction is a phrase without meaning. Write what you like and what you're good at. <br /><br />Quite a bit of classic literature is horror or adventure or fantasy or travelogue or . . .B. Nagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620736939701035617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-54971558500875932742010-01-14T18:30:43.182-05:002010-01-14T18:30:43.182-05:00Interesting thoughts here! I was confused, actuall...Interesting thoughts here! I was confused, actually, that you put Death, Be Not Me in Experimental. I would have pegged it as Literary. I think what we label our fiction, and where we send it, does matter. I also think that it's sometimes extremely difficult to figure out what we're writing and where it fits - because oftentimes good writing doesn't fit into any labeling niche.Michelle D. Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09696465137285587646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-7047949762223344222010-01-14T14:46:15.428-05:002010-01-14T14:46:15.428-05:00Thanks, Elana. :)
And, yah, that would be the sim...Thanks, Elana. :)<br /><br />And, yah, that would be the simplest answer, but at the same time I've targetted plenty of genre fiction mags with my genre fiction shorts -- but that's over time, and I know my writing has matured since I last tested some of those waters. <br /><br />I do like to overthink. lolC. N. Nevetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00375714948653196993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-67663433033812997022010-01-14T14:41:36.197-05:002010-01-14T14:41:36.197-05:00And thinking is always good. It simply might be th...And thinking is always good. It simply might be the audience, like you said. <br /><br />Congrats again on the entries making it into the anthology.<br /><br />:)Elana Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05877856005992028912noreply@blogger.com