Monday, March 12, 2018

Genre Survey Results

Our curriculum path will follow these writing markets based on your choices/votes from our survey:
  1. Fantasy (13 points)
  2. Mystery/Thriller/Horror (21 points)
  3. General/Literary Fiction (24 points)
  4. Historical Fiction/Science Fiction (26 points each)
  5. Romance (29 points)
  6. Children's Literature/Young Adult (40 points)
In each unit we will be discussing the various tropes, archetypes/forms, sample authors of the genre, as well as learning how to market our writing to the specific genre. Our first genre writing unit will be fantasy.

Fantasy includes the following sub genres (in general): High fantasy, heroic fantasy, Arthurian fantasy, dark fantasy (horror), urban, alternate history, RPG (role playing games), science fantasy, speculative fiction, magical-realism, humor, fable, young adult, etc.

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