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[quote=rinabean]Try describing your novel however you can to many people and see what they latch on to.[/quote] The reason that works is because you'll naturally emphasize the most important aspects of...

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[quote=SandyGunfox]I would say there are several bestselling authors like Tom Clancy and WEB Griffin and so on who would quite like to hear the claim that military fiction isn't a genre![/quote] No...

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[quote=mandiiminx] I pretty much agree. I think the Adopt-a-plot should have a separate thread for Fantasy plots. It's hard to find stuff I'm interested in writing while muddling through. Even some...

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[quote=SandyGunfox] There's also those of us who put in "real" genres that just happen to not be listed by NaNo - I would say there are several bestselling authors like Tom Clancy and WEB Griffin and...

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I'm deciding I don't really care if my novel gets into a genre or not. It's so amazing (in my opinion), it's going to make it's own genre! Just watch.

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Re: But I don't care about fitting into a genre

There's also those of us who put in "real" genres that just happen to not be listed by NaNo - I would say there are several bestselling authors like Tom Clancy and WEB Griffin and so on who would quite...

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Other people's stories aren't always as easily-labelled as you might think. My original 'compressed' description for my novel was: literary fiction, fantasy setting, mystery semi-plot. That's the...

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Ha! Thank you! :D

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If this were a Facebook post, I'd hit the like button.

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Honestly, I'd say labels could be a force for good or for ill. They're good if they help you focus and sharpen your ideas of what's appropriate for the work. They're good if they help you communicate...

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[quote=bibliosylph]I think the tide is turning a little bit, as the overly precious nature of belonging to the special "invent your own" genres is wearing thin with a lot of people, and yet of course...

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Hm that sounded a bit snooty. I've written Fantasy, I enjoy it, but not for every novel ever ever.

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Re: But I don't care about fitting into a genre

I pretty much agree. I think the Adopt-a-plot should have a separate thread for Fantasy plots. It's hard to find stuff I'm interested in writing while muddling through. Even some 'normal' ones take a...

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When I want to write, I don't think "i want to write a fantasy", I think "i want to write a story, good or bad". I just acknowledge that my story will have enough elements of fantasy that it might as...

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Then a sadean unemployment erotica procedural you shall have! Wi respect, *k*

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I would read a sadean unemployment erotica procedural, strictly because it's fun to say lol

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Your post reminded me of this post: http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/6994557.html The fortune cookie "...in bed" game, with hymns. :P

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For me, it's the writing itself that's the important thing. Keeping myself interested, letting the story drag me where it will. Irvine welsh tweeted the other week, something like, well, that's another...

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[quote=bibliosylph] Just write it, and let it come to a conclusion without getting lost in the middle, and you will have succeeded, genre listing bedamned. [/quote] Aye! What she said! Wi respect, *k*

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[quote=Hautegeisha] ...cock-gospel? I kind of want this to be a thing now! [/quote] You, too? Great! One never hears of 'black' or 'death' gospel, either. Maybe that's why the salvation army don't tend...

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