: Re: Where can I find information on how different genres are conventionally written? I'm having a very hard time finding a list and examples of stylistic subgenre conventions. To be specific: how

@Sarah872

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Okay here's my take for what it may be worth. As far as I'm concerned it does not matter one iota how you write any piece, in terms of the nitty-gritty structural elements. Sentences, dialogue, any words in fact, are only there to convey information to the reader that says the things you want to say. As long as you get your point across it doesn't matter how you do it. No two people have ever written a given genre in the same way that I know of, my suggestion is that rather than worry about the "genre" you're working in, focus instead on the characters in the piece and how they interact with each other and their world, that's far more important.

I'm not sure that what you're looking for really exists, writers are all different and even from piece to piece you see marked variances in style from many authors. Specific structural elements are going to vary so much that all you can really say that crosses a large percentage of writing is that authors use words and put together into sentences.

FYI you're stated genre aims sound very similar to the style in which a lot of the Shadowrun fiction is written so skimming that body work may be of educational value to you.

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