You'll still have passion afterwards, right?

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Still remember my creative writing professor who shit all over one of my short stories because "It's genre fiction and genre fiction doesn't sell"

    Single-handedly fucked up my creative drive for nearly ten years

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        It's a term for like sci-fi, fantasy, and other "pulp"

        • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          ...but isn't all fiction part of a genre? At least under the market paradigm where we classify art in that way for the sake of sorting consumption choices?

          • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, all fiction is part of a genre. The term "genre fiction" just exists as a condescending way to separate "low art" from "high art", it's not especially coherent

              • ScreamoBMO [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                Wait until you learn that academic musicians have a category of music called “art music”. Apparently music that’s enjoyed by the masses is inherently not art. I know that’s not the literal definition, but also they can still fuck off

                • TheFuckYouOnAbout [hy/hym]
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                  3 years ago

                  Art snobs are one of the few types of people that are ultimately harmless but I still want to bash their heads in

    • panopticon [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Also doesn't "genre fiction" sell exceptionally well? Sounds like that professor had some complex copes going on

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        3 years ago

        It's kinda the majority of book sales. Like, Dan Brown junk and tacky romance novels for lonely straight women make up a huge percentage of the market. Sounds like the professor was just salty nobody's buying their writing.