Wednesday, January 8, 2014

300- literary vs. genre fiction

What I discovered while reading about literary and genre fiction is my own definitions for them. I think of genre fiction as a broad spectrum of ideas such as science fiction, mystery, romance etc. While I think of literary fiction more in terms of outside genre itself. It is in a category of its own and does not have any subcategories underneath it. I think that when it comes to genre fiction there are more possibilities for there to be demonstrated, other than books there can be screen plays that are turned into movies and the short stories as well. While literary would be more like documentaries and information based books. Just from my observations.

My writing style would be more towards genre fiction. Like I said in my introduction post, I mostly write poems, short stories, one screen play, and one book that I have not finished. I tend to focus on action with some romance and it can be debated if it is also science fiction or not. My poems are mostly just about emotions or thoughts that I feel at the time which does not really fit into the genre fiction but it would not be literary either. I guess I think that poetry is then out of these categories. I have not really thought about or experienced what transgenre really is when it comes to writing. I feel that over time I will be able to figure out what falls where in the terms of genre and categories. Right now all I can really say is that I like writing in genre fiction and probably will not venture into literary genre.

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