To Pigeonhole A Genre As Being Successful Or Unsuccessful Is Weird.
The Devil Pulls The Strings Which Make Us Dance; We Find Delight In The Most Loathsome Things; Some Furtherance Of Hell Each New Day Brings, And Yet We Feel No Horror In That Rank Advance.
Each Genre Has Something To Teach Me About The Others. Not All The Lessons Are Transferable, But Many Of The Most Important Ones Are.
One Of The Reasons I Write In Different Genres Is That I Get To Have The Feeling - Even Fleetingly - That I'm Not Just Writing Like Baggott Again. I Can Escape Myself.
I Write Across Genres So I See Them, More Often, As Complementary Instead Of Separated By Boundaries.
Music Is There For Us To Explore. To Intentionally Limit Yourself To One, Two, Or Three Genres Is Limitation At Its Worst. Music Is Huge; Its A Gigantic History Lesson, And If You Are True Music Fan Or A Musician, You Should Explore It. Its All Right There In Front Of Us.
Dickens Is A Much Misunderstood And Mis-approached Writer, In That He Tends To Be Read, Particularly In The Twentieth Century, As A Social Commentator - Like The Great Victorians, A Realist In His Way. But He Isn't At All Like That. His Genre Is Actually More Like A Fairy Tale - Weird Transformations, Long Voyages From Which People Come Back Altered, Parental Mysteries, Semi-magical Twists.
