The frontispiece of Reality Hunger by David Shields quotes the best line on fiction I've ever read: "All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one."
I don't care about "great" but I find that genre-creative-destruction is where words flow easiest for me.
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My art of gig yakverse fiction may not be great, but it does dissolve/invent a genre -- absurdist consultant fiction with elements of sci-fi and fantasy but base content being basic airport-business-book style business ideas. It's the only one of it's kind I know of.
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Also bits of murder mystery.
There's such a thing as consultant fiction but afaik I'm the only one who's gone down this particular genre-bending bunnytrail.
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One of my suspicions is that for my more ambitious drafts that I want to put more work into, the unblocking move will be finding the genre-busting tweak. Right now, the drafts are pretty much pure-paradigm sci-fi plots.
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In my first flirtation with fiction ~20y ago (which I've since deleted from online), the flow-inducing mashup was first-person regular fiction + cookbooks + lyric books. I had segments with literal recipes and song fragments in them. Again not great, but it flowed.
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Dunno about the rest of you, but for me flow is key. If the words don't flow at near the physical limit of typing speed and physical endurance, it's not working for me. Until I can unlock that flow rate, the writing lacks both quantity and quality of words. Minimum viable flow.
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Ground-truthing this thread... I've written probably a couple of million words of non-fiction, and maybe 50k words of fiction in my life (publicly published that is). I've never directly made money off fiction though. Art of gig doesn't count since it is a nonfiction trojan horse
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Have you tried playing with GPT3 as a fiction aid? has had a fair bit of success 'unblocking' with it, which sounds like your issue. Bridging choppy flow states at the edge of your envelope
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Is this like a serious thing you intend to develop further and support properly or a quick and dirty weekend hobby thing?
Kicking tires now.

