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| 16fb675 | Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered. | reading genre-fiction | George R.R. Martin | |
| 042b098 | Many writers, good writers who ought to know better, focus so tightly on the structure demanded by a crime story that they lose track of the fact that they are writing a novel. Accusations of both sensationalism and trivialisation are, alas, often justified. | fiction writing genre-fiction genre thriller technique | Laurie R. King |