By Ruth Nestvold and Jay Lake

This article first appeared in IROSF in July, 2008

Note: I skipped a couple of weeks uploading these articles because I was escorting my granddaughters around to visit relatives. It wasn’t a vacation, exactly, and I had very little free time. When I did, I wrote rather than uploading blog posts. (g)

Genre gives the writer a narrative framework to shelter in, a structure, a place to start.

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