: Re: Is genre ever relevant to the writing process? I'm a strong believer in genre being largely a thing that's used for marketing, an easy shorthand for book stores to know where to place your

Rewording other's answers, writers write for different reasons. Some write within a context whereby genre-alignment is appropriate (e.g. writing books for profit, scripts, writing within a genre per-se). And if you have seen tvtropes, you know it is very hard to avoid all genre elements. :-)

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: Give the actor multiple roles. It's fairly common in small cast shows to have one or two actors filling all of the bit parts, as long as those parts don't appear on screen together (or

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: How do you tell the reader that the setting is normal modern day? I am getting some feedback on my writing but one of the questions that come back is that the readers are not sure about

: Character motivations facing death? Would it be boring/unrealistic/silly/clichÃ© if most characters only had this main motivation for most of a story: saving humanity/their country/their familly/themselves.

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