One more lesson...
When your editor says: "I don't understand your genre" and then later yells at you for not researching enough about a fantasy world that doesn't even exist?
Demand a different editor. Save yourself the headache.
@BabyToaster it's so hard as a creative to be surrounded by those who are not. Those who are not try and control a narrative they are comfortable with.
A creative can see the road they drive in , in the dark. Others want to put up rails on the road that they themselves cannot see.
@PoliTees So very true. And it really shows in some of the things being put out for entertainment consumption today. Few are willing to take risks on "different", and then the "different" is mimicked excessively when those too scared to take that risk see that "different" is successful because it is...DIFFERENT!
@BabyToaster what I find ironic, those same people (not unlike your former editor)
They will often point/reference things that have worked in the past, not realizing they would have probably tried to stamp that out.