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How Important Is “Writing For The Market?”
Whether you’re writing for the market or challenging it head-on, you’re bound to have a few questions. Understanding the ins and outs of genres and subgenres is no easy task, and it’s only made more difficult by capricious readerships and literary agents who seem to...
Is It Prose Poetry, Short Prose, Or Flash Fiction?
It’s easy to be confused about the appropriate genre classification for your very short work when you’re writing prose poetry or flash fiction. Our guidelines will help! Flash Fiction: Flash fiction (along with its cousins micro fiction or even hint fiction) is...
New Adult Fiction: The Next Big Thing In Publishing?
The book genre of “new adult” fiction has been around for a while (since it was first proposed by St. Martin’s in 2009). But only recently has the lingo begun to pick up speed in the conversations and chatter at writers conferences. More and more, publishers are...
Don’t Know Your Book Genre? Here’s What To Do (UPDATED 2024)
As you know, we at Writer’s Relief often write about genre. However, sometimes a writer simply doesn’t know what genre his or her book fits into. And while it certainly can help your cause if your book fits neatly into a single genre, we don’t necessarily think it’s a...
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