I try not to get on my soapbox about it too much, but honestly, there really is a strain of person (some of them taught my college writing classes) who thinks that genre fiction is innately bad and unworthy.
Because I am a shithead, my response to that person these days (sadly not then) is: "And what do you think pays the freight on your very important literary fiction that loses money?"
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Date: 2019-06-20 12:29 am (UTC)I try not to get on my soapbox about it too much, but honestly, there really is a strain of person (some of them taught my college writing classes) who thinks that genre fiction is innately bad and unworthy.
Because I am a shithead, my response to that person these days (sadly not then) is: "And what do you think pays the freight on your very important literary fiction that loses money?"