this page has become very relevant to my non-gaming interests!
i've grown to really dislike the idea of "genre fiction". A good book is a good book. Following specific genre guidelines to please a publisher is something I'm not interested in doing, though sometimes what I write will tend to fall near (or into) a genre incidentally
I certainly don't have any delusions that I'll become some great author of timeless classics, but i'm too arrogant to consider making my already dumb books even dumber to please the absolute lowest common denominator.
of course, for that, and many other reasons, i probably won't ever actually get published - but I like to write so I'll just keep at it