Writing Excuses

Writing Excuses 6.28: Interstitial Art

Dec 12, 2011
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INSIGHT

Art Between The Boxes

  • Interstitial art lives in the gaps between recognized genres and marketing categories.
  • The Interstitial Arts Foundation exists to support creators who don't fit tidy boxes.
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More Than Genre-Mixing

  • Interstitial work draws widely from many traditions rather than patching two genres together.
  • Readers must experience it without standard genre expectations to understand it.
ANECDOTE

Swords Point Rejection Story

  • Ellen described Swords Point as a book publishers couldn't label: not quite historical, not quite fantasy.
  • She persisted until she found a publisher willing to take the book as it was.
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