In today’s newsletter, I’ll be answering a reader question. Liz asked1:
Can you talk a bit about how to change genre without losing your unique voice and/or the things readers have grown to expect from your stories?
This is paraphrased because I asked for newsletter topics on insta and then foolishly forgot to save the responses before the poll expired and they were lost to the digital ether.
This question stayed with me though, in part because it is something I’ve experienced many times throughout my career (if you’ve been with me for awhile, you know I love to jump genres), and also because it’s very timely for me! I am—yet again—in the midst of trying something new.
In short, I feel particularly qualified to speak on this topic.
Before I dig into this question, I want to state that it is not inherently bad to write the same type of story…
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