Changing genres: Experimentation in writing
Writers: In a slump? Some thoughts about that here. Also, observations about tackling a different genre.
“A chef pulls at the edges of their menus to see what new tastes can be created, a photographer tries new mediums, combining old and new, an engineer, a teacher, a social worker, turn their efforts sideways to gain new perspectives and possibly see new solutions to existing problems.“
When I wrote the last word of the fourth Frank Nagler mystery, “The Red Hand,” I leaned back in my chair exhausted. It had taken eighteen months to complete the work, half again as long as the other three.
I needed a break.
All writers reach that point. It can be a combination of writing-centric concerns – a certain what-do-I-do-now-panic, too many ideas, no place to put them, or something outside of writing, something real-world, because writers do have real lives.
For me it was a combination. I had had shoulder surgery to correct painful tears and bone spurs which…
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