We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.