: Re: How to avoid drifting into a different genre? My intention is to write a novel that falls into the "contemporary fiction" genre. Also, maybe, the "family drama" subgenre, if such a thing exists.

Some thoughts come to mind:

Trust your instincts. Your unconscious might be trying to tell you something about where the story should go or is trying to get to some place where there be dramatic goodies. Don't be afraid to follow it there. There are no guarantees writing a good story is a straight line from beginning to end!

Kill your darlings. However, what you're writing can turn out to be crap once you do the edit. Then don't be afraid to cut it out. (You can copy it to a separate document too if you're unsure if it's good or not...)

The first draft of anything is shit. To quote Hemingway. You fix it in the edit!

Trust your writing ability. You just wrote all that. And sure, you had to remove a lot of it, but you wrote it. Do you have any logical reason to doubt your ability to just sit down and write as much again? You shouldn't, given that writing is mostly learned by doing.

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