The main genres, when it comes to fiction genre, are Romance, Mystery, Science-Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy. There is many sub-genres (about 40 for Fantasy only!) and categories. This what we’ll explore at length here.
« Escape reads » is the new book world trend.
No surprises there, because who doesn’t want to escape this still absolutely weird quarantine / confinement?
Everybody’s talking about their escape reads or the best books to escape into, and so on and so forth…!
How can you define which book is an escape read, and which isn’t, since… well, a book is a book!
Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a writing project. Day 201-202-203: Escape Writing »I recently went back to an old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand-alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.
The marketing of books created many, many sub-genres for genres fiction in general, and for literary Fantasy especially.
I recently went back to a old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.
Suddenly, I was not writing a Fantasy novel anymore. I was writing… what exactly?
I was at lost. Ends a bit of research on the topic.
Continuer la lecture de « Writing a novel: On Fantasy »
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