FICTION BOOKS

BLOG SESSION

July 2017

Good Evening Writers, Authors, Aspiring Authors, Novelists, Creative Writers, Film Writers, Script Writers, Playwrights, Emerging Authors and Poets!  If I missed you, it is not intentional ~ Of course we have amongst us some very talented Research Writers, Documentary Writers, Short Story Writers, Journalists, and many others gifted Writers...

We're here on the Blog today to discuss Fiction Genres.  We'll get our Journals out to take notes for future reference.  Many of the Blog Readers here are writing their Novels and working on their Writing Projects for Camp NaNoWriMo.  The online writing Camp is wonderful.  If you have not had a chance to check it out or sign up, it is not too late.  Just click on the link to join many Writers like yourself who are taking the time during the month of July to work on their Novels.

If you write Fiction or are interested in writing Fiction, then take a look at some of the Genres . . .

For Your Journal Reference

Notes about Adventure:  An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action.  Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting and other elements of a creative work.

Adventure Fiction is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

Action Adventure - "action" is the key element (overshadowing characters) and involves a quest or military style mission set in exotic or forbidding locales such as jungles, deserts or mountains.  The conflict typically involves spies, mercenaries, terrorists, smugglers, pirates, or other dark and shadowy figures.  Note:  Action Adventures tend to attract a male audience.

Classics are books accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, for example through an imprimatur such as being listed in a list of great books, or through a reader's personal opinion.  Although the term is often associated with the Western canon, it can be applied to works of literature from all traditions, such as the Chinese classics or the Indian Vedas.

What makes a book "classic" is a concern that has occurred to various authors ranging from Italo Calvino to Mark Twain and the related questions of "Why Read the Classics?" and "What Is a Classic?" have been essayed by authors from different genres and eras (including Calvino, T. S. Eliot, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve).  The ability of a classic book to be reinterpreted, and to seemingly be renewed in the interests of generations of readers succeeding its creation, is a theme that is seen in the writings of literary critics including Michael Dirda, Ezra Pound, and Saint-Beuve.

Fantasy literature is set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.  Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds.

Fantasy is a subgenre of speculative fiction and is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes, respectively, though these genres overlap.  Historically, most works of fantasy were written.  However, since the 1960s, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music and art.

A numbering of fantasy novels originally written for children, such as Alice in Wonderland, and the Hobbit also attract an adult audience.

Ghost Stories - the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story.  In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, with the fiction genre.

Historical Fiction - A fictional story set in a recognizable period of history.  As well as telling the stories of ordinary people's lives, historical fiction may involve political or social events of the time.

Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.  Literary historian J. A. Cuddon has defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length...which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing".

The above Genre descriptions are for your Journal Notes, and we will be back here on the Blog to continue sharing more genre descriptions in our next Blog Session.  Look forward to learning more about the remaining Fiction Genres that are on today's Listing:  Humor, Mystery, Romance, Sports, and Science Fiction!

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Friends, until we meet again back here on the Blog,

Keep Writing!

Peace, Love & Light,

René

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