This kinda explains why I generally haven't liked what little fanfic and "amateur" fiction that I've read. They usually fail this test even if they are otherwise technically accomplished. This is not true of non-fiction where amateurs often easily top so-called "professionals"
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I should add. Simply juxtaposing 2 genres is not a case of dissolving or creating a genre. You could mechanically combine (say) military and romance fiction. That doesn't mean you've mashed them up in a disruptive way. Much "fusion" cuisine fails the same way
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My aspirations in fiction are low. Not shooting for the moon or Nobel quality literature. I just want to write one longish story that both "works" and is technically competent. But there's something here I still haven't cracked. Like Turing wanted AI to beat a mediocre human.
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One piece of writing advice that stood out to me was from Ian Fleming. He said something along the lines of "write wish fulfillment" and I realized at that moment that the James Bond novels were that for him. They are not even close to wish fulfillment for me.
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Setting out to write wish fulfillment is an interesting guide to what to choose to write. In my case, I think it would lead to genre busting outcomes. Not sure if it would work for other people.
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Found Stephen King's 'On Writing' to be different. Tactical advice, yes, but core advice for fiction is like uncovering a fossil. The story unfolds and the characters are their own 'people'. As writer you have to unearth what's there to be told and translate it.
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Maybe a formula for breaking from genre is to reconcile the genre’s broader underlying assumptions with lived reality. This is what makes Gibson work - he reconciles genre-trope technofuturism with witnessed economic disparity.
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