I used to think 'Genre' was a crutch for inadequate writers
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I suspect most novelists start on one side or the other. Either they love literary fiction for its depth, or they love genre fiction for its brute-force appeal. For me, raised on the classics, I used to hold my elitism with an iron fist, and I believed writers who settled for less than perfection were hacks. You could choose one or the other, and most of them chose wrongly.
I used to think 'Genre' was a crutch for inadequate writers
I used to think 'Genre' was a crutch for…
I used to think 'Genre' was a crutch for inadequate writers
I suspect most novelists start on one side or the other. Either they love literary fiction for its depth, or they love genre fiction for its brute-force appeal. For me, raised on the classics, I used to hold my elitism with an iron fist, and I believed writers who settled for less than perfection were hacks. You could choose one or the other, and most of them chose wrongly.