Pony ride.
A bit like authors. Queue up. Have a spin. Tel your little friends "It was just OK. He only knows one trick."
Remember the Paul Simon album: One Trick Pony ? Great song.
I think authors need to write whatever they conceive. I don't feel tied to genre conventions. Popularly, there has been some discussion lately of "literary" novels set within the mystery genre - as if this were some lark of excuse where the guise of the mystery trope is wrapping the deeper and more substantive emotional revelations of the characters in a contrived little world.
Please.
Good writing is good writing. Good storytelling is good storytelling.
When both these things co-exist, then we have literature.
It's the same pony ride, people. You pays your money, you take your turn. Call it a spotted elephant ride for all I care.
Pony still goes around the track and all your friends still watch waiting their turn.
Give him the spurs. See what happens.
There's a saying where I come from: green and green makes red.
If you don't know what that means, never get on a young horse. Better that way.
Better for everyone.
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