This question was prompted by last weekend’s exhibition. A friend of mine was working on a collage picture. A second artist came up to her and asked: “Why are you a collage artist and not a painter?” My friend was outraged, how dare an artist give the impression that her college had less value than a painting. I thought about the nature of the question. Do authors who write for an adult audience look down on children’s’ writers? Do thriller writers think less of romance writers? Or non-fiction writer looks down on fiction? Is there a hierarchy of writing? And if there is what do you think about it? I work across the genre and have been published as a children’s writer, romance and non-fiction and other than subject matter. I have never thought there is a difference in genre, as in one being superior to another, but maybe I am odd?
So why do you write what you do? Do you tell your family what you write? Do you ever switch genre?
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