With Rick Kalowski in the chair, Tom Schulman, Andrew Knight, Jacqueline Perske and Keith Thompson contemplated a basic fact in the life of the jobbing writer – eclecticism is basic to survival. But at what cost?
Working between genres can turn a writer’s mind into silly putty, while high craft requires a specialised understanding of particular forms. At the same time, the ancient beast of boredom demands variety, and most of the great directors moved between radically different genres.
