https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210319080820.htm
Real writing is best, I guess.
For us science fiction and fantasy writers.
Mary Astell called out ‘bad custom’ centuries ahead of her time
Tell the story that needs to be told, in the way it needs to be told, to the length it needs to be told.
Don’t poison a story by insisting it must be an apple when it’s really an orange.
Don’t stunt a story by forcing it beyond its natural growth nor by forcing it to grow in a box too small.
“Genres” and “standard story lenghs” are publisher’s artefacts, not part of storytelling.
Breakthroughs don’t come through abiding by conventions and working in boxes.
This is how you train your brain to be more creative
They sound like good ideas to me!
Publishers hated A Wrinkle In Time. And Madeleine L’Engle never forgot the rejections.
What publishers like best is what’s already been done.
Nobody broke through by writing the same things everyone else has written. Don’t let publishers’ small minds limit you!
Also asks if they stifle it.
A study by two business/economics professors, so it might be like blind men describing an elephant? Or are they confusing creativity with innovation?
At least the first one sounds interesting. If starting way too early in the day!
