Genre

If I had to say, I'd tend to make a case that character-driven stories have always had broader audience appeal than, for instance, Conrad or Melville - and relationships and complexity of personality seems to me to be something more interesting to women. Gotta say that reading something like Little Women or Persuasion has me glued in a completely different way than Lord Jim - which is much more of an up-against-a-problem story than character detail. Genre. Really thinking about it, that's a further labeling and compartmentalization of society - like the "widgets" of "news" that insist onto my laptop screen when I want to just go to Word and get to work. The system brazenly tells me that "my" widgets are based on my google search history. Meaning, google believes it can read my mind. I ignore the whole genre thing and just recklessly write what I want. Frankly, I think that if one is writing strictly to make some sort of regular income, then one ends up writing genre which is the same thing as working for The Man(Publishing Industry). 🤪