{"id":28217,"date":"2024-03-25T03:32:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=28217"},"modified":"2024-03-28T20:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T03:37:33","slug":"know-your-genre-and-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/25\/know-your-genre-and-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Genre and Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28218 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Episode-93-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Orange background with Know Your Genre and Characters in white block letters with pages of a book\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Episode-93-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Episode-93-Blog-Images-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28219 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Episode-93-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Orange background with quote from Know Your Genre and Characters with a white speech bubble\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Episode-93-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Episode-93-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Know Your Genre and Characters <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success, part 3 of 4) &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 93<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTake the expectations of the genre and spin it. That&#8217;s our job, is to take what&#8217;s expected and play around and work through multiple iterations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know Your Genre and Characters. In episode 93 of the How To Write the Future podcast, host Beth Barany explains the importance of knowing your genre, shares about reader expectations and tropes, and about bringing in your uniqueness. There\u2019s also a special invitation to work one-on-one with Beth or sign up for her mastermind group. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part 3 of 4: Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms The podcast is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/93-know-your-genre-and-characters-part-3-of-4\/id1641025914?i=1000650331706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMDEyMDYxLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xNDc1NzUyNw?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQ5-Oamo-FAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/14757527-93-know-your-genre-and-characters-part-3-of-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4Kl2O2FJVuHIhWndoraJ49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/episode\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F2012061%2F14757527-93-know-your-genre-and-characters-part-3-of-4.mp3&amp;podcastId=4025186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/0dc1ec2a-44b0-4f9e-8c47-8e97819c3723\/how-to-write-the-future-93-know-your-genre-and-characters-part-3-of-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xqfudrmCWOY?si=T9r_eTImTlzg4kek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xqfudrmCWOY?si=T9r_eTImTlzg4kek\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-large-player\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><b>RESOURCES\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plan Your Novel Like A Pro<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/pynlap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/books2read.com\/pynlap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Henrietta The Dragon Slayer short film<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; we\u2019re fundraising right now. Check out our Kickstarter here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/authorbethbarany\/henrietta-the-dragon-slayer-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/authorbethbarany\/henrietta-the-dragon-slayer-film<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>12-month Group Mastermind Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers &#8211; open for enrollment:<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/coaching.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/coaching.bethbarany.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the How To Write the Future podcast\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The *How To Write The Future* podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers. This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do figure what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for Know Your Genre and Characters, part 3 of 4\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone. Welcome back or welcome to my podcast. I&#8217;m Beth Barany your host for How To Write The Future, a podcast for science fiction and fantasy writers to help you write positive, optimistic futures. Because when we vision through our stories and for ourselves, we actually help make it so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome back to episode three of this limited series. I am helping you focus on how to transform your novel with these seven editing tips for best-selling success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be sure to listen back to the two episodes so you can catch up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, today, we&#8217;re going to talk about knowing your genre and knowing your character.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start with Genre\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So genre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I am a science fiction and fantasy writer and a writing teacher and a creativity coach. So I spent a lot of time thinking about the genre I write in, and actually, I write cross-genre. I write science fiction and mysteries right now. And previously I wrote paranormal romance, which is bringing paranormal with romance. And I&#8217;ve also written and I&#8217;m currently working on a project based on my young adult action-adventure series, Henrietta The Dragon Slayer, I&#8217;m working on a film, and details about that will be in the show notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So today I want to share with you about the importance of knowing your genre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, if you&#8217;re not a science fiction or fantasy writer, and you&#8217;ll listen to this, all this applies to you as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let&#8217;s talk about reader expectations, tropes, the importance of surprising us, and the importance of bringing in your unique your uniqueness.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are reader expectations? And what is genre?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what are reader expectations?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me back up a step and talk about what is genre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Shawn Coyne says that genre is all about reader expectations and reader expectations are often based on these elements of story.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elements of Story\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What elements?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They&#8217;re based on what we expect to happen in the beginning and the middle and in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are based on the kinds of characters we expect to be in the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I say tropes, tropes can encompass all of these elements: what&#8217;s happening, who it&#8217;s happening to, where it&#8217;s happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for example, if I said to you this story takes place in a haunted house. Right away we already have lots and lots and lots of associations with haunted houses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way they&#8217;ve shown up in TV and film, the way they&#8217;ve shown up in other people&#8217;s novels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of that, all those expectations, we work with those in fiction and storytelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then we want to surprise the reader. We want to do something new with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you are focused on drama or family saga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you&#8217;re writing romance. And you want to bring that into your science fiction. I know a lot of people write science fiction romance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you are bringing in comedy to your science fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have really been enjoying reading some comedic science fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or like me, you&#8217;re bringing mystery into your science fiction. And I&#8217;m using mystery as my main plot structure, like the spine upon which everything is going.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My main character is an investigator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then I&#8217;m also bringing in drama. I&#8217;m bringing in women&#8217;s fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when I say these words, I have some ideas about what is going to happen at the beginning, middle, and end; the kind of characters that populate those types of stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, let&#8217;s do another example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favorite example is mystery since I spent a lot of time with that. Think about the kinds of characters we expect and mysteries. We expect the detective or the amateur investigator. We expect usually some kind of sidekick or friends. We expect an antagonist, villain of some kind. Now I write murder mysteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we have the murderer and we have the victims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, the kinds of story elements are going to be in there are red herrings, clues that lead nowhere, clues the detective doesn&#8217;t know- the investigator. She doesn&#8217;t know whether or not these are legitimate clues or not until she follows them. So I&#8217;m bringing in some thriller elements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things that thrillers have is some kind of race or you&#8217;re running from the antagonist or you&#8217;re running after the antagonist. So it&#8217;s this aspect of chase. There&#8217;s also a countdown clock. That&#8217;s what I was thinking of. Some kind of ticking, ticking time bomb of some kind. Something has to happen by a certain time or else. And the stakes are high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So those are some of the reader expectations and tropes to think about, that I think about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, I would encourage you to really think about the reader expectations and tropes in your expected genre or subgenre, or maybe you&#8217;re doing a genre mashup, and you&#8217;re bringing together, I don&#8217;t know, cowboys, comedy, and space. Firefly for e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">xample, but you&#8217;re putting your own spin on it. And you&#8217;re making it be&#8230; maybe the captain is a woman. And instead of running from the law, maybe she&#8217;s racing to bring a message. Maybe she&#8217;s some kind of messenger. I just made that up on the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And her job is to ferry precious messages across the stars, and then along the way it gets into scrapes and ends up helping people and becoming a problem solver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So not really a detective story at all. Now surprise us. Bring in the things that you love, the things that you geek about, the thing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s that you spend a lot of your free time delving into, researching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And take the, the expectations of the genre and spin it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s our job, is to take what&#8217;s expected and play around and work through multiple iterations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ways to Brainstorm and Play with Genre Expectations\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make a list of 20. Make a list of 60. Come up with lots and lots of ideas there until you surprise yourself and surprise the reader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then bring your own voice, your own mission, your own agenda: why you&#8217;re doing this, what you&#8217;re trying to say. And bring that into your stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that&#8217;s Know Your Genre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I want to say a few words about knowing your characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know Your Character&#8217;s Goal, Motivation (Their Why), and Conflicts, and more\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. Let&#8217;s do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goal: Know your character&#8217;s goal and what needs to change to reach it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know why your character wants what they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know what is in the way of your characters getting what they want. That&#8217;s the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And they&#8217;re going to have external conflicts and internal conflicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know their strengths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know their secrets so important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know they&#8217;re turning point backstory. How are they the way they are on page one?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know their worldview. This is how they view the world. and this is also their belief structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know what they believe at the beginning. And know belief in them needs to change so they can face the big conflict in your story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then know the externalities. Know their habits: their mannerisms; what they like to wear; their environment; where they live and how they feel about where they are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowing your character is critical. When people are editing their novels, this is often where I find when I look at their work, they don&#8217;t know their characters as well as they think they do. And they need to go back to the drawing board and put in more details and write more backstory and really revisit their character. And I do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Special Invitation\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So my special invitation for you is if you would like to do this in the company of others, and you&#8217;re a science fiction and fantasy writer, and you&#8217;ve finished your first draft, which is, oh my God, congratulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then come and join us for our 12-month group mastermind program. We have three places left at the time of this recording.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come unleashed your story&#8217;s potential. Transform your draft into a publish-ready masterpiece. In our 12-month group mastermind program, we teach and coach you to develop a discerning eye so that you can do story edits and line edits on your own story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we also help you prepare for marketing and publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vincent van Gogh said that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need courage to be our creative selves. We also need curiosity, courage, or I already said that, courage again, compassion, and connection because I believe that creativity is our superpower. With the power of the imagination, we can create whole worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can also recreate, reinvision, what we would like as a human species. That is my biggest mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here&#8217;s my special offer invitation to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are curious about joining us in this 12-month group mastermind program and we&#8217;d like to work with me and my husband, who is my cohort on this, who&#8217;s a thriller writer, then please come join us. We would love to have you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to sign up is in the description.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, also if you&#8217;re not sure, reach out with an email or just sign up to have a conversation with me and information on how to do that is in the show notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay Tuned for Next Week for Part 4\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, everyone. That&#8217;s it for this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay tuned till next week. We&#8217;ll have one more episode on editing tips in the limited series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please like, and subscribe wherever you listen to this podcast, or watch it cause it&#8217;s also on YouTube. And please, if you are so moved, please share it with your friend or friends who you know this would be really useful for them. All right. That&#8217;s it for this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you everyone for listening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27766 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1701116328224.webp\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Barany teaches science fiction and fantasy novelists how to write, edit, and publish their books as a coach, teacher, consultant, and developmental editor. 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