#genre-busting

A genre is a particular type of literature, painting, music, film or other art form which people consider as a class because it has special characeristics. (Though, of course, genres are not mutually exclusive, and many series do straddle multiple genres).

*Contractual Genre Blindness

*Death by Genre-Savviness

*From Clones to Genre

*Functional Genre Savvy

*Gameplay Roulette

*Genre Adultery

*Genre Blindness

*Genre-Busting

*Genre Deconstrution

*Genre-Killer

*Genre Mashup

*Genre Motif

*Genre Refugee

*Genre Relaunch

*Genre Roulette

*Genre Savvy

*Genre Shift

*Genre Turning Point

*Heavy-Meta

*Out-of-Genre Experience

*Outside-Genre Foe

*Reality Show

*Genre Blindness

*Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror

*Unexpected Gameplay Change

*The Universal Genre Savvy Guide

Going Beyond the Comfort Zone

Mixed genre animal.

The latest trope in writer’s blogs (like this one) is “Write What You Don’t Know.” The key intuition being, of course, that if you stay in your comfort zone, your artistic self will wither like that pathetic cucumber you tried to grow in your flower garden last spring.

You didn’t try to grow a cucumber in your flower garden? Sorry, I mistook you for somebody else.

Miles Davisf…