And where can I find one? I recently found some of my earliest stories were not genre in the traditional sense, but rather social-label stories. For example: The Geek Novel, The Goth Novel, The Prep novel.
But I'm not really sure if this sort of thing exists outside of say MG or YA. Even then I'm not real sure. I also tend to dig the more bizarre, yet within the real world type stories.
Like finding your neighbor walking an elephant. Or finding that your city has a mysterious ruins with anti-gravity properties, from a time when the ancients had spaceships. It just enough in the real world for the story to feel bizarre yet plausible.
But I think my genre woes are over, mostly. For the most part I think in terms of the "Label Novel."
But I'm not really sure if this sort of thing exists outside of say MG or YA. Even then I'm not real sure. I also tend to dig the more bizarre, yet within the real world type stories.
Like finding your neighbor walking an elephant. Or finding that your city has a mysterious ruins with anti-gravity properties, from a time when the ancients had spaceships. It just enough in the real world for the story to feel bizarre yet plausible.
But I think my genre woes are over, mostly. For the most part I think in terms of the "Label Novel."