Post by Mistress Rell on Dec 1, 2008 7:24:30 GMT -5
Welcome to December, and the beginning of our series on Sub-genres.
A little about the Blog Author rippatton.
Ripley Patton is an expatriate American living on the south island of New Zealand. She writes science fiction and fantasy, and so far, she's managed to avoid fraternizing with hobbits, both literary and otherwise. Her work has appeared in various semi-pro markets, as well as making the quarter-finals of the Writers of the Future once. She is a proud member of Critters online writing workshop, and is also a first reader for a new publishing house, which means she gets to read from the bottom of the slush pile, a thankless job that has given her new respect for editors, and her own writing. She keeps a journal and writes about the joys and trials of being an obscure but insanely determined genre writer.
Her interest include many that make her a perfect candidate for the Enchanted Element.
[pink]When is a Genre like an Ameba?
I was in a writer's forum recently, where a guy lamented that his novel kept getting turned down by publishers because it was not a genre they published. This man was very confused, as he believed that what he had written was adventure fiction and they claimed to publish that. So he proceeded to describe his novel in the forum. The unanimous conclusion was that he was, in fact, a writer of steampunk. Oddly enough, the man had never even heard of steampunk and he was rather surprised to find out he was writing it. The other writers then gave him a list of famous steampunk novelists, all of whom he loved to read and who had probably influenced his writing. He just had no idea that what they wrote, and what he loved, and what he wrote was a subgenre of fantasy (or science fiction, depending on who you're asking).[/pink][/i]
Steampunk Genre Blog
I had heard of steampunk before. My writing workshop held a contest where members were to write something of that genre. I had never heard of it until then, and was leary of asking what it was, as everyone else seemed to know immediatly.
A little about the Blog Author rippatton.
Ripley Patton is an expatriate American living on the south island of New Zealand. She writes science fiction and fantasy, and so far, she's managed to avoid fraternizing with hobbits, both literary and otherwise. Her work has appeared in various semi-pro markets, as well as making the quarter-finals of the Writers of the Future once. She is a proud member of Critters online writing workshop, and is also a first reader for a new publishing house, which means she gets to read from the bottom of the slush pile, a thankless job that has given her new respect for editors, and her own writing. She keeps a journal and writes about the joys and trials of being an obscure but insanely determined genre writer.
Her interest include many that make her a perfect candidate for the Enchanted Element.
[pink]When is a Genre like an Ameba?
I was in a writer's forum recently, where a guy lamented that his novel kept getting turned down by publishers because it was not a genre they published. This man was very confused, as he believed that what he had written was adventure fiction and they claimed to publish that. So he proceeded to describe his novel in the forum. The unanimous conclusion was that he was, in fact, a writer of steampunk. Oddly enough, the man had never even heard of steampunk and he was rather surprised to find out he was writing it. The other writers then gave him a list of famous steampunk novelists, all of whom he loved to read and who had probably influenced his writing. He just had no idea that what they wrote, and what he loved, and what he wrote was a subgenre of fantasy (or science fiction, depending on who you're asking).[/pink][/i]
Steampunk Genre Blog
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I had heard of steampunk before. My writing workshop held a contest where members were to write something of that genre. I had never heard of it until then, and was leary of asking what it was, as everyone else seemed to know immediatly.