Post by account_disabled on Dec 3, 2023 2:52:31 GMT -6
With this article I link up with that post, because I want to understand how a literary genre can imprison a writer and force him, perhaps, to always write in that genre. Let's start from the beginning. How much does the first work affect the reader's perception? I remember a part of Stephen King's essay On Writing , if I remember correctly he was talking about his first published novel, so Carrie . Well his editor told him that he had the classic two pieces of news for him, one good and one bad. The good news was that they would publish his novel.
The “villain” who would be labeled a writer of horror novels. But I think this is a widespread opinion. Andrea Girardi, in a comment on one of his posts , advised me to publish using pseudonyms, because he would Phone Number Data not label me as an author of a single genre . What does the reader expect from your second work? When I read The Sword of Shannara - I'll start by saying that it was one of my first books read - and then found, many years later, the third book of the trilogy (I had missed the second...), I understood that Terry Brooks wrote that genre . When I discovered the writer Bernard Cornwell, reading the trilogy that mysteriously became a pentalogy in Italian Excalibur , I knew that writer would continue to write historical novels and so it was.
What do we expect, then, from an author's second novel? That he continues on that path? Is the reader's perception that that author is still writing in the genre of his first novel? The mainstream is always a surprise to the reader Because it is not a genre literature, but a more "high" one - I absolutely disagree with this, but that is how it is defined. If you write mainstream, you won't be a mystery writer, or a fantasy writer, or a science fiction writer, or a horror or thriller or adventure author. You will, perhaps, be a Writer.
The “villain” who would be labeled a writer of horror novels. But I think this is a widespread opinion. Andrea Girardi, in a comment on one of his posts , advised me to publish using pseudonyms, because he would Phone Number Data not label me as an author of a single genre . What does the reader expect from your second work? When I read The Sword of Shannara - I'll start by saying that it was one of my first books read - and then found, many years later, the third book of the trilogy (I had missed the second...), I understood that Terry Brooks wrote that genre . When I discovered the writer Bernard Cornwell, reading the trilogy that mysteriously became a pentalogy in Italian Excalibur , I knew that writer would continue to write historical novels and so it was.
What do we expect, then, from an author's second novel? That he continues on that path? Is the reader's perception that that author is still writing in the genre of his first novel? The mainstream is always a surprise to the reader Because it is not a genre literature, but a more "high" one - I absolutely disagree with this, but that is how it is defined. If you write mainstream, you won't be a mystery writer, or a fantasy writer, or a science fiction writer, or a horror or thriller or adventure author. You will, perhaps, be a Writer.