I just. I get that teaching mechanics of writing can be simpler if everyone's working in the same sandbox, right, and what works in genre A will not go over well with the genre contract in genre B. These things are true. But that wasn't what they said was their reasoning; they said or implied (depending on levels of social competence) that genre fiction (by which we mean other genres, never forgetting that litfic IS ACTUALLY A FUCKING GENRE JUST LIKE THE ONES YOU DENIGRATE) was lesser.
Listen. I know a lot of people think it's really easy to write a romance novel, and I guess on some level it is--two people meet, they get pants feelings and emotions, they act on them, somebody fucks up, apologies and groveling are had and then the pants feelings ride off into the sunset. It's a pretty simple formula. But doing it well? That takes a lot of skill. Arguably it takes more skill to execute a genre well because you don't have the luxury of bucking convention for shock value or originality. But this is my soapbox and I've been screaming long enough, so I'm gonna just. You know. Not, now.
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I just. I get that teaching mechanics of writing can be simpler if everyone's working in the same sandbox, right, and what works in genre A will not go over well with the genre contract in genre B. These things are true. But that wasn't what they said was their reasoning; they said or implied (depending on levels of social competence) that genre fiction (by which we mean other genres, never forgetting that litfic IS ACTUALLY A FUCKING GENRE JUST LIKE THE ONES YOU DENIGRATE) was lesser.
Listen. I know a lot of people think it's really easy to write a romance novel, and I guess on some level it is--two people meet, they get pants feelings and emotions, they act on them, somebody fucks up, apologies and groveling are had and then the pants feelings ride off into the sunset. It's a pretty simple formula. But doing it well? That takes a lot of skill. Arguably it takes more skill to execute a genre well because you don't have the luxury of bucking convention for shock value or originality. But this is my soapbox and I've been screaming long enough, so I'm gonna just. You know. Not, now.