what's worse?
Apr. 7th, 2009 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrExpecting romance and getting trash, or expecting romance and getting 'I like to think I write literature'
And FYI for that latter crowd, it takes more than eye-crossing prose and big words to make literature. I do, contratry to popular belief, read literature - I read damn near everything. This is why I'm so fucking annoyed when one genre pretends to be another.And believe me, I'm pretty broad in how I define my genres. I like when the lines get blurred--blurred well, anyway. I hate when a writer is secretly ashamed of what he writes and tries to tart it up. I hate that above and beyond all things.
I have never once denied that I write anything more than romance. People try to tell me I write something else, but this is simply not true. Define a romance--define it honestly, and not to make yourself more comfortable about reading such a genre--and you will see my books fit that bill.
Argh, it just drives me crazy. I wanted a romance, not an I really write literature, not romance, book.
Maybe I'm just harsh. I am often told I need to chill the fuck out. I can only say I'm about a million times harder on myself than I ever am on anyone else.
And FYI for that latter crowd, it takes more than eye-crossing prose and big words to make literature. I do, contratry to popular belief, read literature - I read damn near everything. This is why I'm so fucking annoyed when one genre pretends to be another.And believe me, I'm pretty broad in how I define my genres. I like when the lines get blurred--blurred well, anyway. I hate when a writer is secretly ashamed of what he writes and tries to tart it up. I hate that above and beyond all things.
I have never once denied that I write anything more than romance. People try to tell me I write something else, but this is simply not true. Define a romance--define it honestly, and not to make yourself more comfortable about reading such a genre--and you will see my books fit that bill.
Argh, it just drives me crazy. I wanted a romance, not an I really write literature, not romance, book.
Maybe I'm just harsh. I am often told I need to chill the fuck out. I can only say I'm about a million times harder on myself than I ever am on anyone else.
