- New this year at SavvyAuthors!
- New!!
- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Basic Member Pricing: $30.00
- Category
- Characters
- Description/Setting
- Dialogue
- Structure
- Genre
- GMC
- Plotting
- POV
- Voice
- Worldbuilding
- Writer's Life
- Class Length
- 2 Weeks
Whether it’s cozy science fiction, romantasy, or women’s fiction horror, genre blending novels are hot right now and with good reason. Readers want their familiar favorites in new ways and genre blending offers them that.
If you’re not sure where to start, this course will help you explore genre tropes and smash them together in fun and intriguing ways that will have your books flying off the shelves!
Week One:
If you’re not sure where to start, this course will help you explore genre tropes and smash them together in fun and intriguing ways that will have your books flying off the shelves!
Week One:
- What is genre blending and why do it?
- Tropes: What they are and how to blend them Incompatible or just unusual?
- Character is King
- Plot Planning in two genres or more
- Genre Overview
- Feel empowered to write books and stories that seamlessly blend genres together.
- Understand the unique challenges and opportunities that genre blending can provide writers.
- Have tools to plot novels/stories that straddle two disparate genre categories.
- Be able to demonstrate a better understanding of many different genres.
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.
