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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2927837" data-attributes="member: 13892">I never said that authors aren't affected by the opinions of others. Quit putting words in my mouth, please. What I said was that not very many of them sit down with the intention of writing to specific genre tenets (i.e., a tenet checklist). And they don't. It isn't, by any means, normal to sit down with a check list of genre tenets to include in a story and then craft it from the ground up to adhere to that list. What you originally said was that genre classification was responsible for destroying fantasy, but you've failed to tell me why - you've mentioned the finicky nature of fans, the inability of some writers to produce original works, and so on - but all of that has little (if anything) to do with genre classification. You  contend that all of the personal failings of fans and writers are a direct result of genre classification, but you keep beating around the bush as to why. Honestly? I could be wrong, but this sounds like the attempt of a failed writer to pass off their own failings or the cristicisms of consumers in an effort to avoid addressing those failings or criticisms. Why accept personal responsibility when you can blame the genre  classification system? I mean, really - how is that genre classification is wholly responsible for individual consumer criticisims or the failures of an author to produce appealing fiction? Hint: It's Not[Edit: Sorry, that came out much more grating than I thought it would. It wasn't meant as a  personal attack, but as an observation based upon years of very similar claims made by numerous other bitter authors that I've known (which is why I said that I may be in error). Lacking an actual explantion of why, though, I guess I'll never know.]</blockquote>

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