Tag Archives: Genre trouble

Genre Trouble: The May Day “NO MORE UNCOMPENSATED EMOTIONAL LABOR!” Post

Posted on May 1, 2015 by epbeaumont

Once in a while, I do a census of my friends, because hey: who am I hanging with? After this third year of re-entry to SF/F fandom, this is what I notice: I have no friends, no trusted colleagues, who … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: All Art is Interactive (or Why There Are Many Ways to Review)

Posted on April 30, 2015 by epbeaumont

As I have been reading and reviewing, I’ve listened to a lot of conversations about the “right” way to review. Part of the current backlash against People Who Are Not Our Demographic Producing Things We Produce (be that video games, … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: (Mis) Use of the Muse

Posted on April 8, 2015 by epbeaumont

This post is dedicated to my colleague E. E. Ottoman, who raised the question in this Twitter conversation. The glory of Twitter is that you can have conversations with friends and colleagues, then come back to them later. This exchange … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: The Genre Queer Manifesto (For Young Writers Who Have Contemplated the Genre Straitjacket, When the Story is Enough)

Posted on May 10, 2014 by epbeaumont

(For Stephanie, on the occasion of her MFA.)In November 2010, I finished my first ever NaNo novel, the first one that had a completed story arc, the first one that I could hand over to beta readers.  I sent it … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Works and Days

Posted on May 17, 2013 by epbeaumont

Writing is the only trade I know that has a forty-year apprenticeship. If you talk to me in ten years, I will tell you that it’s the only trade that has a fifty-year apprenticeship. We’re never quite there yet. Always, … Continue reading →

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Genre trouble: toneless realism (definition with polemic asides)

Posted on April 3, 2013 by epbeaumont

Back in 2011, one of my NaNo buddies asked me to define “toneless realism,” which I’d used in the course of critical response. The e-mail I wrote in response is an essay with examples, reproduced here. *** What is toneless realism? … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Acute vs Chronic (Notes from the Muse of Research)

Posted on February 18, 2013 by epbeaumont

Recently I was talking with an engineer-in-training about the leap from classroom theory to actual practice. It’s a gulf, and you jump hoping to make it; the blow is softened somewhat (but only somewhat) by moving some of the transition … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

Posted on August 7, 2012 by epbeaumont

Six Sentence Sunday has brought me some marvelous colleagues from around the world. Check out my responses to the provocative questions posted by YA author J. M. Blackman on diversity in speculative fiction. This is one in a series called … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Vampire Variations Challenge (more of Twilight and the New Vampire Story)

Posted on July 24, 2012 by epbeaumont

This past Friday, my buddy TruantPony and I hung out via GChat, talking about the monsters and the aliens, while doing 30-minute writing bouts on various projects. Like all writer-buddy conversations, it was tremendously fruitful. Bouncing ideas off each other, … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Show Me the Fangs (More on Twilight and the New Vampire Story)

Posted on July 17, 2012 by epbeaumont

I finished reading Team Human for the first time, and am wrapping back to start the second reading before I post a full review. Writing buddy and faithful buddy TruantPony pointed out that the protagonists of both Team Human and … Continue reading →

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