All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. Nora K. Jemisin Age • Fiction • Golden • Heinlein • Jewish • Males • People • Process • Science • Straight • White • Whole Acculturation Process • Writers
Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art. Nora K. Jemisin Art • Believe • Danger • Doing • Fantasy • Fiction • Letting Research • Lot • Meant • Particular • Research • Science • Science Fiction • Textbook • Writers
Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction. Nora K. Jemisin Copy • Doing • Fiction • Issue • Kind • Market • Particular Flavor • See • Want • Writer Kind
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