PLOT SYNOPSIS TIME!
Fabian: 18.
Ghino: 8.
Brothers.
Mom leaves, dad dies,
Ghino's taken, Fabian cries.
Ghino goes to boarding school, Fab' is all alone
'til he follows Ghino there and sneaks in his window.
They do the very best they can not to fall apart
And girls come in and break lil' Ghino's heart.
Fabian picks up the pieces, working in a factory
They're in Wisconsin, so he manufactures cheese
That one didn't rhyme too well, but I think you get the picture
What genre would this go in, quick, I need some literature (?)
(The story isn't a poem... I was just having some fun. XD )
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Sep 27, 2008 - 17 14
Hmm... I would say either Mainstream Fiction or People-y Fiction (aka character-based story, which was under the "Other" category last year). Maybe it could be Lit. Fic., I guess, but that would depend on how you're writing it.
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Sep 27, 2008 - 18 28
Well, I wouldn't call it mainstream since it won't be very plot-based, it's very character-based.
I might go all Hamlet on everyone and have long bouts of just the thoughts of the characters like "man, the world is so messed up" or stuff like that.... so would that make it lit. fic? I really don't think I'm witty or clever enough to pull off lit. fic, though...
Thanks for the reply. :)
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Sep 28, 2008 - 08 59
I'm not seeing a genre. Anything without a genre is called either Mainstream or Literary.
If your are writing it for teens it would be Young Adult. Sounds YA to me, since the main characters are both under 20.
When it's purely character driven, devoid of genre, and the plot is the life cycle of one character, it's called *A Slice of Life Vignette*. And that's what yours sounds like: a YA Slice of Life Vignette; while that is a genre, NaNoWriMo doesn't have it listed because it's a tiny niche genre, so I'd list it under Young Adult if I was writing it.
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Sep 28, 2008 - 12 27
Who is your target audience? It sounds like it might be Young Adult.
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Sep 28, 2008 - 18 36
The term 'young-adult' has always confused me - do younger protagonists and a lack of violence/sex/etc make it young adult? What if it has elements of adventure, or romance, of satire, of charm... is Mark Twain a young adult author because his books are read in school classrooms? What of JD Sallinger, or Edgar Allen Poe?
I don't really have a "target-audience." I write what I write and its read by whoever reads it. :/
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Sep 29, 2008 - 07 28
Having young characters isn't enough; it's basically your target audience. For example; The Belgariad (David Eddings) includes a young protagonist, and is not young adult. Harry Potter has violence (quite a lot of it, in fact) but is young adult.
Think of genre like a cake... it may have eggs, flour, and milk in it... but that doesn't mean it's an egg, or flour. Change the proportion of the ingredients, and you might have muffins, or pancakes... it's all about the end product.
Think about where your book would be shelved in the book store. And there's your genre. And until you're done writing it... trying to pin it down to a particular genre is an exercise in futility.
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