https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:54:42 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/137857.html Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:54:42 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/137857.html Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://mbarker.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://mbarker.dreamwidth.org/'><b>mbarker</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses 12.52: Cross-Genres as Gateways<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2017/12/24/12-52-cross-genres-as-gateways/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2017/12/24/12-52-cross-genres-as-gateways/</a><br /><br />Key Points: Cross-genre books can be gateways to get readers to read in new genres. People who don't read a genre often pretend it is monolithic, because the iconic stories in a genre do so well. But each genre has blends and hybrids and explorations of new directions and interesting things! Romance is the genre that other genres like to pick on. Set aside the notion that some genre is untouchable, start with an open mind. Young adult used to be not segregated by genre. Most Americans think comic books are all superhero stories. Gateway cross-genre books are fun! Give readers more possibilities for reading and enjoying. Listen to Season 16... no, make that 11! Elemental genres let you mix the concepts. But don't just do windowdressing, or paint on the walls, build your genres in so they can't be easily separated. Cross-genre stories can help reluctant readers find what they love. So mix it up! Science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, mystery... cross the genres and build gateways into new and fascinating world! The familiar, and the strange.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/137857.html#cutid1">Crossgenres and hopscotch?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />[Brandon] I am going to close us out with a writing prompt. Our writing prompt is I want you to write a story where one of the characters thinks they're in a different genre from what the story actually is. They think they're in a story from a different genre. How does it go? This has been Writing Excuses. You are out of excuses, now go write.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=137857" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/137857.html cross-genre romance genre blending horror elemental genres science fiction sci fi mystery fantasy public mbarker 0 https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/2760.html Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:14:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/2760.html Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses 9: Sci-Fi Sub-genres<br />from <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/04/06/writing-excuses-episode-9-sci-fi-sub-genre/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/04/06/writing-excuses-episode-9-sci-fi-sub-genre/</a><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/2760.html#cutid1">The Little Stuff</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />So - Space Opera goes out there and has an adventure, Mil SF lets the Space Marines kick butt, Hard SF means you gotta get the science right, and Cyberpunk can't pass a Turing test? How's that for a misguided summary?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=2760" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/2760.html sci fi science fiction space opera cyberpunk hard sf subgenre mil sf dystopian Nothing On But The Radio, Gary Allen cheerful public ext_88293 0