Genre

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Genre as a marketing category!
Publishers and editors do not think about genre the same way authors do. Here's an explanation.



... Now I write an ode to spinach:

spinach,
you
are green
and
i wish i had more
of you than
what I ate
(yum yum yum)
at five in the morning,
dawn
creeping
up
you are
(my sunshine and)
the perfect delivery method
for salt and
garlic.

Comments

[hamadryad11.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting debate. Will you be posting more about it on your LJ? I'd like to hear some different perspectives on it. On the one hand I agree with your position, but at the same time, it seems to me that it can be difficult if you go too far outside the genres you're familiar with.

I went to a writer's group meeting, and found that there was a really wide variety there. I thought it was great that they were such a versatile group, but I could see members having a lot of trouble when it came to critiquing poetry, for instance. I have to wonder if the lone poet in the group was benefitting all that much.

[bachsoprano.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Sure - I'd be interested in outside opinions too, so thanks for the idea! :) Post is underway...

[hamadryad11.livejournal.com]

Great! I will head over there and look for it.