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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2927878" data-attributes="member: 13892">I've already covered this further up the thread. And this is the genre classification system at work - after the work is written (obviously - you won't be buying unwritten works at the Barnes & BNoble or checking out unsold novels at the library). All true, but you don't have to sell a novel before it's written. Indeed, most of the authors  that I know don't - they shop around their manuscript to multiple publishers after it has been completed. Again, this is usually genre classification at work after the fact. Again, all true - but it's largely at work after the fact. Indeed, you yourself acknowledge this kind of exchange usually happens after a novel is written (look at the verbiage that you use above very closely - it's past-tense). That's agreat example, you're right - but it's a great example of changing a novel after the fact (i.e., it was altered after it was written, and other planned novels were changed after their initial conception). Absolutely, and I never said they couldn't. What I said was that most authors don't sit down to write up a genre checklist of a novel - they worry about genre after the fact (as did every author or hypothetical author in the examples that you offered above) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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