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We are getting closer to the software update on our stories system that will allow for setting more detailed genres.  Before you get scared to death by the size of this list, know that you can choose several sub-genres for your stories.  You are not limited in the number you add, but we are recommending no more than 3-4 per story.

A lot of the sub-genres we are adding have specific tropes.  We'll be adding resources later to assist with these tropes if you wish to try your hand in writing them.  Several of these tropes are what specifically define the sub-genre. 

We've had a lot of help and feedback on this as we've gone along.  So thank you everyone!  The current updated list of genres:

  • Action/Adventure - Sub-genres of action/adventure tend to focus on actively moving the plot along and less on character and other elements usually in a fun/mystery sort of way.  Typically there is a MacGuffin, a plot object, that the characters are trying to get or prevent others from getting.
    • Action fiction -  emphasis on action sequences, typically jumping from one thing to next
    • Adventure - Adventure stories typically have a journey of discovery and exploration
    • Nautical - action adventure with a sea-based setting.  Examples: Treasure Island, Pirates of the Caribbean
    • Spy - lighter-hearted spy - Sort of a Alex Rider and some of the earlier James Bond movies
    • Spy-Fi - Spy with Sci-Fi mixed in. This is usually a more technologically advanced situation that most people's every day life.  Think Enemy of the State, James Bond Moonraker, Jason  Bourne
    • Super Hero - Emphasis on action sequences, but with a sci-fi or fantasy element and often capes and costumes. (Unless you listen to Edna Node of The Incredibles (No capes!))
    • Swashbuckler - Emphasis on action sequences, but usually with a sword in hand.  Tends to cross over with historical nautical action adventures.  Examples: Zorro and Pirates of the Caribbean.
  • Comedy - Sub-genres of comedy focus on less serious things or have a less than serious take on serious things.
    • Comic Fantasy - Unserious stories set in a fantasy world.  Example: Terry Pratchet's Color of Magic
    • Comic Sci-Fi - Unserious stories set in a sci-fi world.  Example: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
    • Comic Horror - Strong unserious element offsetting horror. Example: Scream, Cabin in the Woods, The Lost Boys
    • Tall Tale - humorous story with blatant exaggerations such as heroes that do the impossible with nonchalance - Example: Jack and the Bean Stalk, The Princess Bride
    • Surreal Comedy - Using illogic and absurdity for humorous effect - Example: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Independence Day
  • Fantasy - Sub-genres of fantasy, of which there are many, focus on speculative elements of writing that have an extremely unlikely possibility of actually being real. Magic, fantastic beasts, and in many cases the places you find them, all land in fantasy.
    • Low Fantasy - takes place in a real world setting with magical elements. Though elements such as werewolves, vampires have their own genre in Paranormal.  Examples: Harry Potter
    • Historical Fantasy - usually set in a historically accurate period of this world, but where magical creatures or supernatural forces exist. Examples: Clash of the Titans
    • Medieval Fantasy - set in a medieval society on Earth with knights, Kings and Queens, epic quests and legendary characters such as King Arthur. May also include wizards and magic. 
    • Urban Fantasy - real world and fantasy world collide - Examples: Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    • High/Epic Fantasy - takes place in a fictional fantasy world. The future of this world is in the hands of a hero or group of heroes who must undertake quests and battle evil. A classic example of this genre would be 'Lord of the Rings'.
    • Lost World - Usually a story where the prehistoric still thrives.  Such as King Kong or Journey to the Center of the Earth.
    • Sword and Sandal - Bronze Age Fantasy worlds that typically have Greek or Roman empire themes.  Examples: 300, Clash of the Titans, Gladiator (if it had fantasy creatures or magic)
    • Gaslamp -  Generally speaking, this particular realm of fantasy employs either a Victorian or Edwardian setting. Same timeframe as Steampunk, but with a focus on fantasy elements. Ex: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    • Grimdark - Grimdark is a subgenre of speculative fiction with a tone, style, or setting that is particularly dystopian, amoral, or violent. Ex: A Song of Ice and Fire
    • Low Fantasy - takes place in a real world setting with magical elements. May include werewolves, vampires or other magical/supernatural creatures. Examples: Harry Potter, Percy Jackson.
    • Comic Fantasy - Comedy focused fantasy - often subverts other fantasy genres and gives them a humorous overtone. The works of Terry Pratchett are prime examples.
    • Alternate History - Story takes place in alternate version of history, such as what if the Nazi's won "The Man in the High Castle" by Phillip Dick
    • Anthropomorphic Fantasy - Animals take on human qualities - like many animated movies
    • Arcanepunk - Magic and Science existing side-by-side
    • Arthurian - tied to King Arthur, Merlin. Ex: The Crystal Cave, The Once and Future King
    • Assassin - sub-genre of fantasy tied to assassin's and eliminating political enemies in generally a non-modern world. Ex Assassin's Creed
    • Crossworlds/Portal - characters from the real world find their way into another, magical world, through a portal of some kind and often find themselves involved in a struggle to save this world or characters within it. Classic example would be ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’. and Alice in Wonderland
    • Dragon Fantasy - Stories centered around dragons - ex: Joust
    • Flintlock - fantasy settings with first gen guns
    • Futuristic Fantasy - the more fantasy than sci-fi future
    • Gaslamp Fantasy - Alternate Victorian Age fantasy
    • Gunpowder Fantasy - Magic worlds with guns
    • Heroic Fantasy - Hero (and anti-hero) journeys
    • Historic Fantasy - set in a medieval society with knights, Kings and Queens, epic quests and legendary characters such as King Arthur. May also include wizards and magic.
    • Magical Realism - Magical carefully integrated into modern society.  Not typically overpowered
    • Military Fantasy - focus on military/mercenaries in a fantasy setting.  Usually higher in gore
    • Mythic Fantasy - New spins on old stories - Think Percy Jackson and the Olympians or American Gods
    • Super Hero - Comic book style Super Heros - Spider-Man, Batman, Superman
    • Science Fantasy - set after the decline and fall of a technological society, either on Earth or other planets. Often dystopian. May include aliens or remnants of technology the characters perceive as magical.
    • Sword and Planet  - Fantasy-like swashbuckling set in Sci-fi worlds. Think Treasure Planet
    • Wuxia - Martial arts focused fantasy, often taking place in alternate history China.
  • General - Fiction stories that don't clearly fall into other genres.
    • Drama - Serious stories that don't fall into other categories.
    • Coming Of Age - Stories about growing up
    • Rich Boy - A very common early gay fiction trope of gay boy from a rich family does his thing.  Common conflict is the lose everything because you're gay.  Opposite trope of , can do it because you are rich.
  • Historical - Sub-genres of historical focus on different time periods in history or the speculation of alternate history.
    • Alternate - Nazi's win WWII, Napoleon win's the Battle of Waterloo, Roman Empire never fell
    • Medieval - Medieval Drama, love, poetry, romance. Think Game of Thrones
    • Western - North American settlement. Non European Culture, economics. Cowboys. North American settlement, ingenuity, way of life.
    • Industrial Revolution - Conversion to modern inventions and processes. Not limited to railroad, cotton gin, electricity.
    • Ancient Greco-Roman - In reference to ancient Greek and Roman times. Cultural, political, societal. Ideas, original Olympic games, orgies, Creaser's, senators. Can be style of wrestling.
    • Ancient Orient -Near East, Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Mesopotamia. Early, middle, late Bronze Age, Iron Age.
    • Cold War - Stories set in the height of the cold war from 1950-1990. Early Tom Clancy novels
  • Horror - sub-genres of horror range from possible creep outs to graphic gore to monsters to weird science and dimensional horrors.  They generally focus on giving an a scare and a thrilling rush.
    • Gothic - (aka gothic romanticism; and dark romanticism): fiction mixing themes of horror, romance, and death
    • Weird Science - Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and other traditional antagonists of supernatural horror fiction. Ex: Stories by H.P. Lovecroft
    • Zombie - civilization collapses due to overwhelming swarms of zombies. Typically only a few individuals or small bands of survivors are left living. Ex: The Walking Dead, World War Z
    • Monster -  a genre of literature that combines good and evil and intends to evoke a sensation of horror and terror in its readers by presenting the evil side in the form of a monster. Ex Dracula, Frankenstein
    • Psychological - a particular focus on mental, emotional, and psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience. Ex: Hannibal Lector novels
    • Splatterpunk - distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence, countercultural alignment, ex: Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Literary Fiction - literary fiction is focused on the exploration of the human condition.  This is the stuff they assign you in high school and college and make you write book reports on.  Special note:  It is exceptionally difficult to dive into the depths of the human condition to explore and discuss a message while still being entertaining.  Turning into a pedantic prat is a great way to rid yourself of an audience. See Hollywood's recent issues on prioritizing message over entertainment.
    • Contemporary Literary - Exploration of the human condition in modern times. 
    • Historical Literary - Exploration of human condition in the past.
  • Mystery - sub-genres of mystery focus on investigating events.  Depending on the sub-genre, this can be solving a crime or murder, finding missing persons, finding missing stuff, or solving a grand historical conspiracy.
    • General Mystery - is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Think Hardy Boys, Scooby Doo, Agatha Christie
    • Historical Mystery - The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. Raiders of the Lost Arc...
    • Noir/Hard-Boiled - (Strong Trope Alert) in noir the protagonist isn't a detective, but a victim, a suspect, and/or a perpetrator of crime. Hard-Boiled is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Detectives of hardboiled fiction are often antiheroes. Notable hardboiled detectives include Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Slam Bradley, and The Continental Op.
    • Cozy Mystery - also referred to as "cozies", are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off stage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
    • Police Procedural - is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigation
  • Paranormal - Paranormal is the melting pot of several sub-genres that got large enough to form it's own home.  Generally speaking, Paranormal is urban fantasy that limits itself generally to ghosts, vampires, werewolves, shifters, and other creatures.  It should be noted that Paranormal has strongly established tropes in its sub-genres.  The meta-humans in Paranormal are not typically monsters.  You'll find the monster versions of these meta-humans in Horror.  Research of your chosen sub-genre is strongly advised.
    • Paranormal Mystery -  Mystery story with paranormal elements such as ghosts, vampires, werewolves or magic. Ex: Ghost
    • Romantic Paranormal - is a paranormal story with romantic elements.  If you have a story that is primarily a romance, but with paranormal elements, use Romance -> Paranormal Romance.
    • Werewolves - Stories focusing on werewolves specifically.  Teen Wolf
    • Shifters - Stories that feature multiple types or types other that werewolves of humans capable of assuming animal aspects or full changing into animals
    • Vampires - Stories that focus on Vampires - Example: Twilight
  • Romance - Romance stories focus on primarily on character relationship and development.  There is a strong trope in most, if not all the sub-genres for Romance for a Happily Ever After (HEA) or Happy For Now (HFN).  Violating the HEA/HFN trope should not be done lightly or at a whim, as this tends to turn off readers of this genre.
    • Paranormal Romance -  Romantic story with strong paranormal elements (such as shifters, werewolves or Vampires)
    • Contemporary Romance - Romantic story set in modern times
    • Historical Romance - Romantic story set in the past
    • Western Romance  - Romance story set in the Wild West
    • Regency Romance -  Regency romances are a subgenre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency romances are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions. In particular, the more traditional Regencies feature a great deal of intelligent, fast-paced dialogue between the protagonists and very little explicit sex or discussion of sex
    • Romantic Sci-Fi - Romance story with sci-fi elements
  • Science Fiction - Sci-fiction sub-genres explore the possibilities of what might be generally through the power of technology.  There are certain sub-genres of science-fiction that have some very strong tropes that you must follow (The tropes themselves define the sub-genre).  Be aware of them when tagging your stories.
    • Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic - concerned with the end of civilization, either through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Example: 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, I am Legend
    • Dystopian - Stories set in a police state or dictatorship. Example: 1984, Clockwork Orange,  Australia in 2021, Bladerunner
    • Utopian - the Idealized "perfect" human society.  Example: Star Trek, 3001: The Final Odyssey
    • Space Opera - a story characterized by the extent of space travel and distinguished by the amount of time that protagonists spend in an active, space-faring lifestyle. Example Star Wars
    • Space Western - Sci-fi story with western elements Example: Firefly
    • Soft Sci-Fi - stories in which the science involved is not detailed, typically dealing more with cultural, social, and political interactions
    • Tech Noir - (also known as cyber noir, future noir and science fiction noir) is a hybrid genre of fiction, particularly film, combining film noir and science fiction, epitomized by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and James Cameron's The Terminator (1984).
    • Cyberpunk - is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a combination of lowlife and high tech. Ex Cyperpunk 2077, Bladerunner, A.I. Robocop (original)
    • Steampunk - Sci-Fi Historical usually set in Victorian age or 19th century American West and based around steam technology.  Ex: Wild Wild West, Timekeepers
    • Military Sci-Fi - in essence, the addition of science fiction elements into a military fiction story. These stories are told from the point of view of the military, or a main character who is a soldier in the military. It usually includes technology far superior to that of current day, but not necessarily implausible. (Note that some military science fiction stories fit at least somewhat into the "hard science fiction" subgenre as well.) ex - Battlestar Galactica
    • Hard Science Fiction - stories whose scientific elements are reasonably detailed, well-researched and considered to be relatively plausible given current knowledge and technology. Example: Jurassic Park, The Martian
    • Science Fantasy - is a mixed genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy. Ex: 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Star Trek
    • Libertarian sci-fi is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses individualism and private ownership of the means of production. Ex:  Atlas Shrugs, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Thriller/Suspense - Sub-genres of Thriller/suspense are similar to action/adventure in that they tend to focus on events and moving things along.  But where Action/adventure is focused more on fun/mystery, Thriller/Suspense is focused more on fear/horror. There tends to be a mystery element as well. Tends to have deeper engagement with the character to make you care if they survive.
    • Environmental Thriller - thrillers tied to environmental events that are typically threatening the world.  Ex: The Day After Tomorrow, Geostorm
    • Supernatural Thriller - Thriller using paranormal as the driving fear. Ex: Poltergeist, Amityville Horror.
    • Historical Thriller - thrillers where the action and intrigue take place in an earlier time period.
    • Medical Thriller - a sub-genre of mystery novels, and they have mysteries that center around medical procedures, diseases, injuries, and medical facilities.
    • Psychological Thriller - emphasizes the psychological condition of the hero that presents obstacles to his objective, rather than the action. Some psychological thrillers are also about complicated stories that try to deliberately confuse the audience, often by showing them only the same confusing or seemingly nonsensical information that the hero gains
    • Legal Thriller - is a type of crime fiction genre that focuses on the preceding of the investigation, with particular reference to the impacts on courtroom proceedings and the lives of characters. Ex: Runaway Jury
    • Espionage - The spy thriller is a genre of literature that centers around a storyline with secret agents and espionage. Part action-adventure and part thriller, spy stories often follow a government agent racing against the clock to thwart a big attack or uncover an enemy's plans in order to save lives—sometimes even the world
    • Political Thriller - is a thriller that is set against the backdrop of a political power struggle. They usually involve various extra-legal plots, designed to give political power to someone, while their opponents try to stop them. They can involve national or international political scenarios. Anything Tom Clancy
    • Techno Thriller - story whose theme is usually technology, or the danger behind the technology people use, including the threat of cyber terrorism such as State of Fear.
    • Military Thriller - often shares elements with techno thriller, but with a plot that is more focused on military objectives or technologies. Main characters are typically military personnel, and the narrative is often global in scope. Many things Tom Clancy
  • Western - sub-genres of westerns focus on the western United States, the frontier in general, and the rugged individuals that tend to populate such places.  The sub-genres can range from the historical context, the present day, or the weird with fantasy and aliens invading the west.
    • Western Sci-fi - Western with sci-fi elements - think Cowboys & Aliens or Wild Wild West
    • Weird West - Fantasy in a Western. (Cowboys and Centaurs)
    • Western Historical - Classic Old West story
    • Western Modern - Present day story set in the western USA
    • Western romance - Western with Romantic elements
  • Non-Fiction - Various writing in the system that is not fictional stories. See sub-genre descriptions for details.
    • Creative Non-Fic -   writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as academic or technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact but is not written to entertain based on prose style. Many writers view creative nonfiction as overlapping with the essay.
    • Letter -  letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [1] The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by large numbers of people, such as newspapers and placards, although even these may include material in the form of an "open letter".
    • Reference - books in the reference nonfiction genre contain relevant information on a subject and where you can go to learn more about that subject. The books in this genre can be about anything people might need to know about. They can be marketing guides for writers or lists of travel destinations in a country or area – anything where one can list information in an easy to use way to help people find the information on a topic.
    • Biography - is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of their life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.
    • Autobiography - is a self-written account of one's life. Takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobiography may be based entirely on the writer's memory.
  • Poetry - Various poetry types in the system. See sub-genre descriptions for details.
    • Free-Verse - poetry that follows natural speech patterns, but does not rhyme or follow a regular meter
    • Haiku – a short poem of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively. While there are several schools of Haiku writing, the most faithful to the original will use some aspect of the natural world as its subject, and will not contain any personal references to the writer/observer.
    • Limerick – a poem that is typically humorous and bawdy, written in five-line, predominantly anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme.
    • Sonnet - a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically containing ten syllables per line, traditionally using iambic pentameter. A sonnet must contain a turning point (or, volta), in which the thread of the theme changes direction. There are three main sorts of sonnet: Italian (or, Petrarchan), Shakesperean, and Spenserian; each of these has a different rhyme scheme. The Italian rhymes ABBAABBA CDCDCD or ABBAABBA CDECDE; the Shakespearean uses ABAB CDCD EFEF GG; the Spenserian ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
    • Lyric – a poem that expresses personal feelings or emotions, typically written in first person. There are several general groupings of lyric poetry, including elegies, odes and sonnets.
    • Ballad – a poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. Usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines.
    • Cinquain - a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. Cinquains may be paired and manipulated to create longer forms. For example, the mirror cinquain has lines of syllables 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, 2, 8, 6, 4, 2.  Cinquains are often used in teaching schoolchildren early forms of poetry.
    • Rhyming – a poem containing two or more words that repeat the same or similar sounds in the final syllable, usually placed at the end of lines placed so they echo each other
    • Epic Poetry – a lengthy narrative poem, typically set in the far past, involving heroic and extraordinary adventures and dealings of people with gods or other superhuman forces.
    • Blank Verse – a poem with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.
    • Mixed Forms – a mixture of two or more forms of poetry
    • Translation – a poem translated from another language
  • World Building - World Building is a special genre added to Gay Authors to group together the various elements that an author must develop for a speculative fiction story that occurs outside of our own experiences.  The further outside the more that needs to be developed.  However, modern audiences do not generally tolerate large amounts of exposition (Show, Don't Tell!).  World Building genre is where you can post the various parts and pieces that aren't full on story, but fill your world for those that just want to know more but would slow down your story or be a cheesy infodump.
    • Fantasy World Building - Miscellaneous elements of non-Earth fantasy world that is about the world or things in the world.
    • Science Fiction World Building - Miscellaneous elements of usually future world that is about the world or things in the world
    • Paranormal World Building -Miscellaneous elements of Earth, but not that is about the world or things in the world

Beta Look at how the story listing will now show Genres:

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The Genre and Tags page will show the descriptions and story counts for each Genre and Sub-genre.  This is first Beta look:

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(Note that when we upgrade, the current genres become sub-genres and we are creating new Primary genres above them.  Hence why existing stuff shown here has "Fantasy - General".  It just means we haven't sorted anything yet.)

When you are adding a story, you can set the Sub-Genre:

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When filtering stories as a reader, you can really dial things in.

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This example will show you all stories that have "Drama" and "Sci-fi" and does not have "Romance-General".  If you chose "Any Genres selected" at the bottom, it would hose you all stories that are either "Drama" or "Sci-Fi" that did not have "Romance-General".

Comments, thoughts, missing something?

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Looks extensive and complete/thorough to me. I'm pleased with The Poetry Genre, and the fact you have included mixed forms in the sub-genres because I often post mixed collections. 

I also often write what I call 'simple human drama'. For example, romances which are more about things like depression, or dysfunctional families, or the sometimes harsh realities of the gay existence(such as reactions and attitudes toward bisexuality), or the far emotional reach of religion. I'm trying to decide whether those would fit in Contemporary Romance or Contemporary Literary(because of what it says about the human condition), or even General, under the drama sub-genre. Is the CL sub-genre meant to be more high brow? I do understand I can use tags to further pinpoint the story classification.

Anyway, thanks, @Myr. I think this will be easy to get used to, and should really help readers make more educated choices, and maybe even stir us to take new directions. I know I had a few lightbulb moments as I read through the genres/sub genres and their descriptions. Thanks for your hard work. Cheers! 

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6 minutes ago, Headstall said:

I'm trying to decide whether those would fit in Contemporary Romance or Contemporary Literary(because of what it says about the human condition), or even General, under the drama sub-genre. Is the CL sub-genre meant to be more high brow? I do understand I can use tags to further pinpoint the story classification.

well, 'literary' carries the baggage of being more high brow.  Mostly because published authors writing in Literature often express such negative view towards "genre"/"Pulp" fiction.  I have my own biases which I toned down significantly for the description.  Suffice it to say, people read (or watch TV or watch movies or play games) mostly to escape from a reality that is less than their ideal.  Stories that wallow in the things most people are trying to escape from tend to be less popular than 'escapism'. There IS an audience for it and if you are writing it, it should be categorized thusly so that people can find it. 

I would think that your approach to writing would fit fine in literary and do well there. 

I do have some concerns, expressed in the description, about people getting too tied up in their message and forgetting the entertainment.  It'll likely be softened further for rollout. 

We will also be working to more homogenize the descriptive style of the sub-genres and what not.  But with all the sub-genres, it's a lot of legwork to get everything cleaned up.

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Just a note on this... It looks like we might be doing the update to rollout this change on Friday. 

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By the way... this is going to be dynamic as we define things that fit and will make sense. I added Fantasy - Fairy Tales sub-genre into the system. And moved the 9 stories from our Fairy Tale Anthology we did back in the day into it.  If you happen to have a Fairy Tale posted, feel free to update the sub-genre so it gets listed in the sub-genre.

And if you think we need something we don't have, make the pitch.

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