Fiction Writing: Improve Your Story Skills by Cross-Genre Study
Here’s a grid I found that might be useful:
| Improving Your Writing Skills (from http://tianevitt.com/infographics/) | |||
| To Master | Read/Dissect | Or… | In Order To Learn |
| Atmosphere | Historical | SF | Historical Immersion, Weaving in details, Avoiding anachronisms |
| Backstory | SF | Fantasy | Pacting backgroun info, Explaining technology, Worldview as setting |
| Evil | Horror | Fantasy | Anti-hero protagonists, Villian motivation, Suspension of disbelief |
| Plot | Mystery | Thrillers | Doling out clues, Avoiding monologues, Making it make sense |
| Pageturning | Thrillers | Mystery | Cliffhanger chapters, Constant escalation, tightrope tension |
| Tearjerking | Christian | Child Classics | Profound character transformation, Tightrope tension |
| Visceral POV | Romance | Christian | Reader becomes heroine, Feels heroine emotion, Max reader engagement |
Have fun with this…
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