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Space western vs weird western
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Space western vs weird western

Getting your genre right and why it matters

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Monalisa Foster
Mar 03, 2024
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With the release of my Baen novel debut, Threading the Needle, I’ve been faced with defining what genre it belongs in and discovered quite a few misconceptions, misperceptions, and outright myths that I’m compelled to address.

How do I know that no human ever drew a woman with a katana and a 1911 in a space Western? Because MidJourney is unable to give m…

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