how do i avoid the trappings of genre fiction

The trappings of genre fiction are the only thing not bad about genre fiction.

Don't write genre fiction

>>9251038
Write something original.

(And if it's not original, why write it anyway?)

>>9251038
Write about ideas.
If you can't write about ideas, write about characters.
If you can't write about characters, write about setting.
If you can't do any of that, then you're writing genre fiction.

>>9251038
Subvert the tropes, like...what if you had a teenager girl, but she was a BADASS ASSASSIN