In the Writeoff chat, Cold in Gardez likes to say that story quality is inversely proportional to the number of genre tags. In general I agree, it's better to stay focused. Even if the quality doesn't suffer, the story becomes more specialized. Each genre becomes another barrier that turns some potential readers off.

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I've about HAD IT with the Bureau of Land Management. I just read an article about what they plan to do with the wild horses, and I am getting very angry as I read the lines. They're making one bad plan after bad plan. They think it's for "population control" when all they'll end up doing is endanger them or drive them extinct! They need to know when to back the fuck off and leave things as they are, because NO ONE in their right minds would allow them to do this.

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