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Originally Posted by Warboys  I tend to think that the whole thing about 'genre' for fantasy is often quite dismissive, and being geared for convienient marketing, sidesteps the fact that a good, well told story will carry any element, be it fantasy or not.
I myself write what would be categorised as fantasy, but i'm a bit irked that i have to call it that, since even though i know better, i can't help but associate the term with tired, cloned old worlds full of elves and orcs and magic dragons derived from Tolkien, spread thin like butter on too much bread.
I think there's more of an emphasis on genre nowadays because readers & audiences are lazier, and want to know before they've experienced for themselves. I tend to consider it a failing to have written anything that DOES fit a genre label convieniently.
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Hi Warboys
I think I probably put in my earlier post a lot of what I wanted to respond to this post.
As a writer I think it would be a shame if you felt constrained to a genre but as a reader, I can't think of many other ways of choosing the type of book you might want to read.