Something similar seems to happen with beginning fiction writers; they mistake the baggage for the contents. @justinaireland
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By baggage I mean the stuff that makes a genre a genre, e.g. rockets/robots/rayguns. By content I mean ....
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... what you use them to say. Good genre tropes are potentially metaphors for many complex things; that's ...
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... the "contents" of the baggage. New writers often obsess about the bags instead of filling them.
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And actually we should let
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Anyway, not-so-good readers tend to think it was clever to use a suitcase. Better readers/writers know it's what you use it FOR.
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Star Wars said one thing with a hick kid+big galaxy+spaceships; Andre Norton said something drastically different.
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