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or permanently finding themselves interstitial... rather than confused about the genre classifications.
I pretty much throw things at the story until it works, if it be Women's Fiction, Mystery, suspense, experimental, historical, adventure or what have you I'll do it. I'll also take out genres that I planned if it makes it work and don't really care about genre classifications as much when creating the story.
I don't like being confined to genres so much or sticking to one... but at the same time I realize how unmarketable it gets if you keep throwing things at it and taking them out until they stick in some fashion. Probably old fashioned of me since I don't really pay attention to the classifications as much, but pretty much will do anything to make the story work.
Anyone else play in this pond, or are people really that strict with themselves about the genres they choose and don't jump ponds? Will you ditch the story if you refuse to jump ponds, or do you change the nature of the story to not jump classification?
I pretty much throw things at the story until it works, if it be Women's Fiction, Mystery, suspense, experimental, historical, adventure or what have you I'll do it. I'll also take out genres that I planned if it makes it work and don't really care about genre classifications as much when creating the story.
I don't like being confined to genres so much or sticking to one... but at the same time I realize how unmarketable it gets if you keep throwing things at it and taking them out until they stick in some fashion. Probably old fashioned of me since I don't really pay attention to the classifications as much, but pretty much will do anything to make the story work.
Anyone else play in this pond, or are people really that strict with themselves about the genres they choose and don't jump ponds? Will you ditch the story if you refuse to jump ponds, or do you change the nature of the story to not jump classification?