Here are some great subplots of great literary genres. Some of them I had never heard about!
Newbie writers (like myself) have a hard time 'knowing' our genre that well, and sometimes it can be all too easy to stick to one single genre that we have stumbled upon.
If all of your writing is science fiction set in a post-apocalyptic future of earth, how will you ever know if you can write a kick-ass fantasy thriller? Plus! Won't you get bored!?!?!?!
Sometimes it's just easier to stick within the borders of our favourite genre; it may not be the favourite, but rather the most accessible for us. The problem with accessibility to a genre is that we as writers can become complacent. Through complacency, boredom sets it.
That's right boredom.
You will get bored as a writer.
We will get bored as readers.
By writing in more than one genre, you can discover hidden talents that you may not have ever believed you could have!
Go read new genres! Go explore new blogs! So get out there!Run Wild and Free!
Have the best day ever!
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I spent an embarrassing amount of time just laughing at that last .gif.
ReplyDeleteI love that diagram you put up~ I have the problem of sticking to a genre and it's like "but what if I want to write a romcom and not a slasher? do I have to change my name?" But hey, experimenting works!
ReplyDeleteI never stopped to consider the subsections of genres. If asked, I'd have said Thriller, Sci-Fi, Romance etc. Wouldn't have thought to classify them at this level even though I fully realized there were different types of each. Brain-flow problems lol
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