: Re: What are most common tropes of a paranormal book and dark fantasy book? I'm trying to decide what genre my novel should be. I wanna be more generic so the answers can help other people, so

@Samaraweera193

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Genre is largely a marketing consideration, and should typically be considered after writing, not before --if you're consciously seeking out common tropes to imitate, you're likely to produce something cliched and unoriginal.

After you've completed your book, seek out books that you think would most appeal to the same audience as your book, and then try to position your book as whatever genre those books are assigned to.

The exceptions to this rule are:

if you want to write in a genre you don't know at all, in which case you should do some advance reading, not to imitate the generic tropes, but to avoid them
if your goal is to subvert or expand on genre expectations, in which case you'll need to know what they are first.

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