Literary fiction is harder to do than genre fiction, but pioneering a genuinely new genre of genre fiction is harder than literary fiction I think
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Literary fiction = show unfactored reality
Genre fiction = show factored reality (color by numbers)
New genre pioneering = show refactored reality
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Nonfiction is like the lazy alternative to inventing new genres... make up refactoring scaffolding but don’t actually build anything with it
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I think, in today’s world, writing literature is a new form of fiction. Can’t remember who wrote this - “we’re living in a world that resembles nothing so much as dozens and dozens of overlapping, really lurid science-fiction scenarios. /1
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