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#2: How to Choose the Best Genre for Your Story

Fiction Writing Made Easy

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What's Your Global Genre?

If you can identify the topic or theme you want to write about, then you can usually identify the global genre of your story. So for example, if you wantit to explore the power of love, then you're probably writing a romance. O you wanted to talk about justice, or the bad guys being brought to justice and escaping justice, then you might be writing something like a thriller Or a crime novel. And then question number five is, what are your comp titles, or what stories in the market are most like the story youwant to write? If twilight or outlander were your comp titles,. or kind of the inspiration for your story, then you could identify the gene of those

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