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In my opinion, literary genres are not defined in terms of â€œyour story must have A and B, but not C, in order to belong to genre Xâ€. Rather, they are defined by â€œA, B, and C, are exemplars of genre Xâ€. So even if contemporary category romances all have happy endings, your story can run against that trend as long as it resembles the classics of the genre in other respects.

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: How do I evaluate an unwritten plot/story? I'm working on a full, detailed outline of my planned book series before I have much of it written down. I'm not a pantser, I must have a clear

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: As a rule of thumb: If a accident makes a characterâ€™s life worse, you can put it anywhere in the story, because it becomes just one more challenge for the character to overcome. If an

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: How do I evaluate an unwritten plot/story? I'm working on a full, detailed outline of my planned book series before I have much of it written down. I'm not a pantser, I must have a clear

: Synonym recommendations for "chuckle?" Apparently I want to use this word a fair amount ("she chuckled," etc.), or, more specifically, a word that means "a short and [soft or gentle] laugh."

: As a rule of thumb: If a accident makes a characterâ€™s life worse, you can put it anywhere in the story, because it becomes just one more challenge for the character to overcome. If an

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