Post by victorgrant on Apr 28, 2018 8:55:56 GMT 1
Hi,
Writers today live in a very different world than writers of yesteryear. If you wanted to be published, you followed the publisher's rules for writing. To an extent, I understand that because they're the experts. But, so many writers today have come up with their own rules; their own formulas for success. Some have reinvented that metaphorical wheel that they were told not to. Some helped redefine genres; or at least add new themes to sub-genres. They did this by writing their stories their way and persevered until they either found, or created, a market for their stories.
In so many areas of success in life, the old rules don't apply anymore. Success today is more often achieved by thinking so far outside the box that the box is deemed old-fashioned and irrelevant!
I say all that to ask you this: Are writer's chances of being published still too tightly bound to the old ways and rules of publishers? Are they open to genres being bent a little? To that same point, are readers open to it? For example, I love cozy mysteries. I love the quaint towns, quirky characters, lack of sex, violence and vulgar language. Yet, it's generally expected (by readers and publishers) that the amateur sleuth solves a murder. There are very few exceptions where the mystery is a crime other than murder. Nonetheless, I would like to write a cozy mystery series where, instead of murder, or theft, the sleuth solves mysteries. Mysteries that often contain unexpected adventures.
But, I'm constantly told that wouldn't be a cozy mystery even though all of the other elements are there. Some say that would just be called a mystery novel. Others have said the other cozy elements of the story are too soft to be considered a mystery at all. If these are true, then where would my stories fit? Would agents and publishers even consider a novel that doesn't neatly fit into their definition of a genre or sub-genre?
Either way, I'm writing them! I'll pioneer a new sub-genre if I have to! But, with successes in so many other areas of life today coming from doing things in ways that no one else is, or providing a service/product that follows it's own unique recipe, is my series doomed due to the traditional definitions and formulas prescribed INSIDE the box?
Any Suggestion Would be appreciate.
I didn't find right solution on the internet.
Reference:
www.writersdigest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=276152
ERP marketing examples
Thanks
Writers today live in a very different world than writers of yesteryear. If you wanted to be published, you followed the publisher's rules for writing. To an extent, I understand that because they're the experts. But, so many writers today have come up with their own rules; their own formulas for success. Some have reinvented that metaphorical wheel that they were told not to. Some helped redefine genres; or at least add new themes to sub-genres. They did this by writing their stories their way and persevered until they either found, or created, a market for their stories.
In so many areas of success in life, the old rules don't apply anymore. Success today is more often achieved by thinking so far outside the box that the box is deemed old-fashioned and irrelevant!
I say all that to ask you this: Are writer's chances of being published still too tightly bound to the old ways and rules of publishers? Are they open to genres being bent a little? To that same point, are readers open to it? For example, I love cozy mysteries. I love the quaint towns, quirky characters, lack of sex, violence and vulgar language. Yet, it's generally expected (by readers and publishers) that the amateur sleuth solves a murder. There are very few exceptions where the mystery is a crime other than murder. Nonetheless, I would like to write a cozy mystery series where, instead of murder, or theft, the sleuth solves mysteries. Mysteries that often contain unexpected adventures.
But, I'm constantly told that wouldn't be a cozy mystery even though all of the other elements are there. Some say that would just be called a mystery novel. Others have said the other cozy elements of the story are too soft to be considered a mystery at all. If these are true, then where would my stories fit? Would agents and publishers even consider a novel that doesn't neatly fit into their definition of a genre or sub-genre?
Either way, I'm writing them! I'll pioneer a new sub-genre if I have to! But, with successes in so many other areas of life today coming from doing things in ways that no one else is, or providing a service/product that follows it's own unique recipe, is my series doomed due to the traditional definitions and formulas prescribed INSIDE the box?
Any Suggestion Would be appreciate.
I didn't find right solution on the internet.
Reference:
www.writersdigest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=276152
ERP marketing examples
Thanks