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fred_mouse ([personal profile] fred_mouse) wrote in [personal profile] grayestofghosts 2025-03-22 02:56 am (UTC)

Interpreting from this - the writers who are doing this failure to code switch are being inauthentic to their selected genre. Kind of assuming that writing is writing and missing the nuance? I've seen similar behaviour from writers who are strong in one genre (usually literary fiction) assuming they can write in another (usually SF, because that is where I spend my time) and turning out something that doesn't engage with the conversation that is happening now within the genre. Often turning out something that reads as juvenile and bigotted because they are going off individual (dated) examples as if they are indicative.


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