Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:36 pm Post
Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:14 am Post
BethCutter wrote:Maybe it's just me, but I always feel that genre novels involve a sort of contract with the readers. Certain things they have a 'right' to expect to be included or exclude. And if you are not even aware of those unwritten conventions, how can you possibly fulfill your end of it?
BethCutter wrote:But, yes, I suppose I can see the argument that NIAD is a genre of it's own, so the writer is free to add a time traveling Sherlock Holmes to the contemporary paranormal romance , why not?
gr wrote:In fact, my wife and I had some good sport before NiaD trying to reverse-engineer the genre module of your brain and made bets against each other about which way you would jump with NiaD 2017.
vic-k wrote:Scouring the depths of the abyss that is Rog's brain, is in fact a genre as yet to be defined ... a hellish scary one at that!
Thu Nov 16, 2017 3:39 pm Post
pigfender wrote:Oh, I’m not complaining. I’m just saying I don’t need anyone else to move in.
Thu Nov 16, 2017 5:12 pm Post
Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:29 am Post
Jaysen wrote:pigfender wrote:Oh, I’m not complaining. I’m just saying I don’t need anyone else to move in.
Wait. Then why did I pack all my stuff into this shipping container?
Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:23 pm Post
pigfender wrote:BethCutter wrote:Maybe it's just me, but I always feel that genre novels involve a sort of contract with the readers. Certain things they have a 'right' to expect to be included or exclude. And if you are not even aware of those unwritten conventions, how can you possibly fulfill your end of it?
I totally agree!But that's one of the nice things about NiaD. If you don't know them, that's not your fault or your problem. Most of the conventions you talk about are book-wide contracts not chapter or paragraph-to-paragraph contracts, so it's on me to make sure that the chapter briefs include the necessary world features and plot markers that a reader would demand.
pigfender wrote:gr wrote:In fact, my wife and I had some good sport before NiaD trying to reverse-engineer the genre module of your brain and made bets against each other about which way you would jump with NiaD 2017.
What did you come up with?
Fri Nov 17, 2017 5:56 pm Post
Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:27 pm Post
Sat Nov 18, 2017 12:36 am Post
pigfender wrote:I hoped that such a well established alternate reality as the Dickensian Scrooge/Marley would’ve been as close to ubiquitously understood as “real life”.
pigfender wrote:PS did people notice our first “re-used” character?
Mon Jul 23, 2018 3:31 pm Post
gr wrote:pigfender wrote:We’re not really coming up with different genres in the truest sense. In my mind, genres are a mixture of three things: 1) a reality, 2) a story, and 3) an emotion*. * - you can read more about my genre classification theories / procrastinations here: http://www.pigfender.com/index.php/2014 ... s-a-genre/
In fact, my wife and I had some good sport before NiaD trying to reverse-engineer the genre module of your brain and made bets against each other about which way you would jump with NiaD 2017.
We were both so so wrong!
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