tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622792808181237144.post1453314459106894076..comments2009-01-22T19:10:19.603-05:00Carradeenoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8622792808181237144.post-23513514965360335902009-01-22T19:10:19.603-05:002009-01-22T19:10:19.603-05:00

Precisely! :-D<BR/><BR/>If you write what you think the readers want, you'll be only mimicking what they want and not writing genuinely, sacrificing your ability to fit it in a mould that doesn't fit it.<BR/><BR/>That's something that by and large can't be done well. (I daresay someone has pulled it off at some point, so I won't generalize.)

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My opinion is that people who think that genre fiction is simplistic and unsophisticated clearly don't know the genre.<BR/>And it really shouldn't matter what kind of prose you write. You should just write. If you want to write literary fiction, go for it. If you want to write SF, more power to you. It's about what YOU want to write, not what academic snobs or anti-literary geeks want. The

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