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Genres

Genre is the category of fiction that describes your story. Sci-fi, horror, romance and comedy are all genres. Writing can be cross genre such as a sci-fi horror or romantic comedy.

I read somewhere that sci-fi was the biggest selling genre in the UK. Maybe you should try your hand at it?

I’ve noticed two major types of sci-fi. The first is where you have a character driven story set in a sci-fi setting. The second involves the exploration of an idea. Stephen Baxter is an expert in writing the second type of sci-fi novel but I feel that this genre has limited appeal to those who would not normally read books of this genre.

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