{"id":1593,"date":"2011-12-19T22:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2011-12-19T22:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T05:37:31","slug":"genre-fiction-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2011\/12\/19\/genre-fiction-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Genre fiction: then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203430404577094473463521362.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Derek Haas<\/strong>&#8216; column &#8220;The Code of the Thriller: Never Bore Them&#8221;<\/a> in Saturday&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> made me think of the fiction in the pulp magazines.<\/p>\n<p>His column could easily have been written for <em>Author &#038; Journalist<\/em> or <em>Writer&#8217;s Digest<\/em> back in the 1930s by any number of pulp scribes. Take, for instance, this quote, which also applied to the pulp fictioneers:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best examples of popcorn fiction create unforgettable, three-dimensional characters and drop them into places that force us to rip through the pages. If you want to be a genre writer, I say forget the &#8220;rules,&#8221; leave your thesaurus on the shelf, and just be a storyteller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As he also says, writing genre fiction \u2014 horror, crime, science fiction, westerns, etc. \u2014 \u201cdoesn&#8217;t limit your artistry as a writer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think many of us fans of the pulps agree wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading novelist Derek Haas&#8216; column &#8220;The Code of the Thriller: Never Bore Them&#8221; in Saturday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal made me think of the fiction in the pulp magazines. His column could easily have been written for Author &#038; Journalist or Writer&#8217;s Digest back in the 1930s by any number of pulp scribes. Take, for instance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3,4,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulpbits","category-books","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-pH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}