Comments on: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 7: Genre Blending

By: The Art of Genre Blending | T.N. Tobias

The Art of Genre Blending | T.N. Tobias — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:07:44 +0000

[...] It’s common for writers to smash genres together in hopes of aggregating two disparate reader groups. The problem with this approach is that you’ll usually only succeed in diminishing your readership further by only appealing to fans of both genres instead of each feeding into the other. The Writing Excuses crew give an excellent example of this on their genre blending podcast. [...]

By: Writing Excuses 4.18: How to Steal for Fun and Profit » Writing Excuses

Writing Excuses 4.18: How to Steal for Fun and Profit » Writing Excuses — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:59:19 +0000

[...] here at Writing Excuses have talked about the Anxiety of Influence before, we’ve discussed genre-blending, and we’ve talked about where ideas come from. Now we’re going to blend all of those in [...]

By: John Brown

John Brown — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:11:08 +0000

BTW, the report says “Science fiction” but the actual survey question asked “science fiction and fantasy”

By: Guerry

Guerry — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:11:59 +0000

John,

I found the links on your site, and will dig in. I’ll look forward to your post about the ALA conference.

Thanks!

By: John Brown

John Brown — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:45:49 +0000

Guerry,

It IS on line. I’ve got a link to it from my site. Just seach under NEA or “literacy.” I’ll be posting more about it this week. I just got back from speaking at the ALA conference and have a number of interesting numbers to share.

By: Raethe

Raethe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:42:38 +0000

Cute? Of course. It’s me!

I bet I could punch harder than Howard could. Five years of boxing’ll do that for a girl.

…Merely making an observation, of course.

By: Chaos2651

Chaos2651 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:40:45 +0000

Oh, that’s cute.

…I’m waiting for that punch to MY face, Howard. See, I said it correctly this time. Howard’s supposed to punch ME in the face.

By: Raethe

Raethe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:39:09 +0000

I think someone has to take all those pronouns away from you until you’ve figured out how to use them.

By: Chaos2651

Chaos2651 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:37:12 +0000

Pish posh! Howard’s not a part of Reading Excuses, so how would he know? Of course, Howard, if you WANT to join our little writing group, we would certainly like to have you. Then you can give me crap for not submitting.

Howard did say that if you went to Dragon’s Keep he’d punch you in the face. But see, if you were in Reading Excuses, you could verbally abuse us. So see, there’s benefits.

By: Raethe

Raethe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:15:00 +0000

He heard you didn’t submit to reading excuses this week like you were supposed to, so he’s withholding the ep as punishment.