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Am I the only writer that gets the heeby-jeebies when I see the term "literature"?
I don't write what the marketplace, critics, and scholars would consider literature. I write genre fiction and I write it because it's what I like to write and what I like to read. "Literature"--and in this I mean what's often taught in tenth-grade English and the like--holds no magic nor joy for me to read, let alone write.
I write to entertain. I write because I love it and because I want someone else to fall as in love with the characters, the places, and the universes I've created as I am.
LitFic just doesn't do that for me.
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