Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
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It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.
Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.
I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.
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