genre

The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy. George R. R. Martin

I got recommended this so decided to try the FREE TRIAL. This is the snowflake method... Somehow it makes my craw to rise. Like this is why I cant read a lot of genre fiction. I'm sure a template like this works tho. And I might have done better with my first book if I had, had it. Anyone...

I decided to make a leftover recipe thread. Here is what `I just made to use up all the bits of cheese left from the cheese board, You can use buttermilk instead off cream. Unless yu are using up cream too. AND I added turkey instead of bacon. After turkey burritos, turkey stirfry, turkey...

In the Book World, Eco-Horror Is the New Slasher…Because Climate Change Is Here When it comes to horror sub-genres, folk horror asks, “What did they do?” whereas eco-horror asks, “What have we done?" By Jackie Jennings | October 21, 2024 | 11:19am Photo: Getty ImagesBOOKSENTERTAINMENT 2...

Here is Mushens Entertainment agency's advice on wordcount per genre with also an internal link to advice for children's fiction. https://www.mushens-entertainment.com/blog/how-to-edit-word-count

I've recently started to try and break down genre a little more and am finding it harder than anticipated. Is there a quick way to identify a book's genre? On Amazon, for example, there are so many filters and categories (Best Sellers, New Releases, etc) that it's hard to see where a novel...

From a publisher / agent's perspective is satire considered a genre or a sub genre? For example, if Animal Farm were published today, how would publishers see it in the marketplace? Do books which aren't written to market, or that straddle genres face challenges being picked up?

You've heard that infernal (non-)debate, right? Are you a plotter or pantser? Are you someone who plans your story, or do you discover it as you write? I say it's a non-debate because I'd bet the farm that almost every writer employs both strategies, often simultaneously. Every artform has...

From lexico.com... trope NOUN 1 A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression. ‘both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes toward the self’ ‘my sense that philosophy has become barren is a recurrent trope of modern philosophy’ ‘perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes...

Hi everyone, I was hoping, once again, to pick your brains. This one's for the fantasy fans. In your opinion, who are the big names in fantasy these days, what kind of stories are selling, and what does the future hold for the genre? I can google all this and do my own research (which I...

Introduced with impeccably literary prose. Ahem. "Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of everyday existence. The prose is lush, the character detailed, but one problem – absolutely nothing...

I joined Litopia with a firm grasp on what I perceived my preferred genre to be - Science Fiction. Now that I'm part of a community that is helping me to grow and develop, I'm finding myself branching out into other genres and writing styles (thanks daily flash fiction!). This year, I decided...