Hee, I think you just replied to your own comment!
This is partially what I am talking about -- people like categories, and they like their expectations, and it is very difficult to snap out of expectations once they are there.
That makes it hard on writers, too -- harder, I think, than anyone usually thinks about. Take Nora Roberts: her fans want the same thing over and over again, and buy her books because they know what they are going to get... and yet then they complain to each other that she's become predictable. How unfair to her!
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This is partially what I am talking about -- people like categories, and they like their expectations, and it is very difficult to snap out of expectations once they are there.
That makes it hard on writers, too -- harder, I think, than anyone usually thinks about. Take Nora Roberts: her fans want the same thing over and over again, and buy her books because they know what they are going to get... and yet then they complain to each other that she's become predictable. How unfair to her!