*counts the number of drama tags in my stories*

Oh my.

Hope there's help tagging stories. I have no idea what most of mine would fall under other than DRAMA.

6 minutes ago, Carlos Hazday said:

Hope there's help tagging stories. I have no idea what most of mine would fall under other than DRAMA.

Same.  I have some I can recategorize, but for others I have no idea.

2 hours ago, Carlos Hazday said:

Hope there's help tagging stories. I have no idea what most of mine would fall under other than DRAMA.

I agree. Most of my stories are about self-discovery, friendship, or other topics which aren't easily fitted within genres. As my readers know, they're almost always that European phenomenon 'a slice of life'. I appreciate the desire to give readers stories which more accurately fit their parameters. Who hasn't had the experience of reading something and wondering how on Earth it got categorised as whatever? But there are stories which cannot be squeezed into genres. What is going to happen to them? If you're rejecting Drama, is there going to be any other general category? I would hate the idea that most of my stories will end up un- (or mis-) categorised because the possibility of a general category has been taken away. 

PS When this subject first came up, I did advocate for the retention of Drama. 

3 hours ago, CassieQ said:

*counts the number of drama tags in my stories*

Oh my.

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26 minutes ago, northie said:

I agree. Most of my stories are about self-discovery, friendship, or other topics which aren't easily fitted within genres. As my readers know, they're almost always that European phenomenon 'a slice of life'. I appreciate the desire to give readers stories which more accurately fit their parameters. Who hasn't had the experience of reading something and wondering how on Earth it got categorised as whatever? But there are stories which cannot be squeezed into genres. What is going to happen to them? If you're rejecting Drama, is there going to be any other general category? I would hate the idea that most of my stories will end up un- (or mis-) categorised because the possibility of a general category has been taken away. 

PS When this subject first came up, I did advocate for the retention of Drama. 

Aside from my were-creature silliness which would be fantasy, I'm stumped. I sure as heck don't write romances and that's what most others post. I know you and I stand outside the lines on that one. How do you categorize some 25 stories all following one character's life starting at 15 and progressing through middle age?

When I first read about the coming changes to tags, I was reminded of a story I read in Fantasy & ScienceFiction magazine. I have gone back through many, many years of issues but I have been unable to find the exact reference I was looking for. The gist of the story, though, was that an author who was getting no real-estate for her writing was offered a job as an editor for a "Best of" anthology. Why? Because she wasn't writing for a sub-sub-genre system where every story had its own niche; her writing, while excellent, was too general. So instead of say, being listed as Drama, a story had to be Drama/Slash/Slash/Something-Or-Other to gather a following. And it didn't matter if a story was the best of the best in its genre, it had to land in the favorite, current sub-sub-genre of the time to be included in any anthology titled "Best of". The story was beautifully written, and I was stunned by it; is this what story writing will become I thought? It also ties in nicely with this sub-tagging that GA appears to be swinging into. Does GA really mean to micro-categorize stories in such a way that readers never have to exposed beyond their niche, a niche that grows ever smaller, never to discover unfamiliar writing?!

As a reader, I see great possibilities with this.  However, I do hope that the sub-categories don't get so specific that we end up with a category for "gay right-handed one-armed wallpaper hangers with one left arm."

I don't know what categories have been tentatively planned at this point.  I hope such categories as Adventure, Romantic, Erotic, Mystery, Horror, High School, College, and even Twenties, Thirties, Forties, etc., or Recent Past, Near Future, Present, Time Travel, Alternate Earth, Alternate History, Alternate Universe, Historical, Ancient, Light Humor, Humor, Serious, 1930s, 1960s, 1990s, 2000 or 2K, Werewolf, Were-creatures, Shapeshifters, Space Travel, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Furry,  and Other are considered.

I'm looking forward to use the new sub-genre system. I was at a loss what to choose with my new anthology story. My stories are totally drama-free. 

10 hours ago, Myr said:

We're still working on the full list of genres, but we'll make sure general fiction has a place.

For me, that's all I need to hear.  As I said before, I do appreciate the desire to attract the 'right' readers to our stories and for them to find what they want. Otherwise, they might end up going off somewhere else. 

11 hours ago, Myr said:

We're still working on the full list of genres, but we'll make sure general fiction has a place.

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