How to Understand Your Genre (and Sub-genre) of Choice

What is a genre? What is a subgenre? What are tropes and cliches?

So many definitions, so many things to talk about!

Welcome to another episode of #WriteOnIn, where we are in full swing for #Preptober for #NationalNovelWritingMonth!

Today, we're going over different genres and touching on the ideas of tropes and cliches.

Timestamps:

0:00 Opening Thoughts / addressing last episode’s drunkenness
2:33 Today’s topic
3:33 What is a Genre
4:19 Discussing Sub Genres
9:01 Tropes and Cliches
9:55 Tropes in more detail
12:46 Cliches in more detail
14:17 Closing thoughts

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