How to Choose your Genre & Frame?

• Does your Story need a Genre?
• Your Story needs Readability.
• A Context conveys this Readability.
• Genre, when Framed, create a Context.
• How do you develop a Context?

Summary – How to Frame your Genre to create a Context?

1. Define which Emotion you want to convey.
2. Pick the Corresponding Genres.
3. Frame these Genre to create a Context.
4. Refine your Context by adjusting your Frame.
   1. Focus on the main Themes.
   2. Make use of Characters & Environments to create Depth.

A Clear system

• 6 Genres
• Your Stories need Clarity.
• For this you need a Systematic Approach.
• 6 Genres will be enough to provide a Balance between Diversity & Clarity.
• A Clear System should also make Improvisation simpler.
• The Simplicity of this system allows you to Develop Stories more easily.
• Simple Classification is also design to factor the Complexity of modern stories.
• Most Stories you create are likely to fall into multiple genre.
• Therefore, 6 Large categories are more likely to define your Storyline than 1 Narrow category.

• Target Emotions
• Your Stories will convey Emotions.
• Either Strong or Reactive Emotions – Anger/Courage, Fear, Excitement.
• Or Deep or Contemplative Emotions – Sadness, Contemplation, Joy.
• Classifying Emotions may be a confusing task.
• It is why your need a sturdy base.
• Here, 1 Genre will correspond to 1 Emotion:
  • Action – Courage
  • Comedy – Joy
  • Adventure – Excitement
  • Drama – Sadness
  • Saga (Action-Adventure) – Contemplation
  • Horror – Fear
• All of the Aforementioned are considered as Fundamental Emotions.
• These are the Emotions you’ll want to Target 1st.
• From there you can extend.
  • ex: Fear – Anxiety, Dread, Abomination, Terror, Revilement and so on…
• Combine Genres to Merge Emotions.

If you want to know more about Story Structures.



The 6 Genres – If Fiction was a Pizza

• The Pizza Parable
• Your Stories are the Best.
• They are Scalable.
  • Small – 1 shot
  • Medium – Trilogy
  • Large – Saga
• They are Customizable.
  • You can adapt & adjust them.
  • By adding or removing Characters, Items & Environments.
• They are Sharable.
  • Your Stories are Collective Stories.
  • You build them with your Team, with the Public & with the Characters.
  • You want to Share them.
  • Because they represent your Ideal.
  • You Write them so that they taste delicious for you.
  • Chances are high that they taste good for others.

• My Pizza
• How’s fiction your Pizza?
• Here.
• Action-Adventure or Saga, is The Dough.
  • Comforting & Flexible.
• Action, the Spices.
  • Put it where you need more Punch.
• Adventure, the Herbs.
  • For more Flavor & Freshness.
• Comedy, the Cheese.
  • Too much and you’ve got a bowel incident.
• Drama, the Sauce or the cream.
  • Can submerge all the others.
• Horror, the Meat.
  • Delicious in moderation.

• Start with the Dough
• If you don’t know what to begin with Start with Action-Adventure.
• Sagas are Universal Stories compelling Humans because they balance Emotions.
• There’s a sense of Familiarity in Sagas.
• They’re also the most Flexible stories.
• They’re Experimentation Stations.
• If you’re not sure of which Genre pick start with a Saga.
• And create a Place where the Public wants to Return.
• Sagas are Homes.
• The Dough is Home.

If you want to know more about Diversity.



Framing & Context

• What are the Most Popular Frames?
• Science Fiction
• Fantasy
• Mystery
• Thriller
• Western
• Pirate
• Monsters
• War

• How can you can make use of them?
• Frames define your Stories borders.
• They give the Public a definition of your Stories.
• The Themes you will be Displaying & Unfolding.
• Framing a Story allows you to create a Context.

• How to Frame a Genre?
• Pick your Genres.
• Pick your Frame.
• Here are 3 Examples.

Creating a Context & Immersion

• 3 Purposes
• A Context serves 3 Purposes:
  • It create Predictability & Expectations.
  • It allows the Story to be more Readable.
  • It create a sense of Familiarity & Belonging.

• Immersion
• Combining Genres & Frames helps the Public to Immerse themselves in Stories.
• Context deliver both Coherence & Consistency.
• Which are both essential to develop a World.

• Genre + Frame = Context
• Here’s a Table of Possible combination of the aforementioned Genres & Frames.

Context	Science-Fiction	Fantasy	Mystery	Thriller	Western	Pirate	Monsters	War
Action	Swashbuckler	Paranormal	Hardboiled	Assault	Wilderness	Swashbuckler	Beast	Military
Adventure	Pulp	High Fantasy	Espionage	Vigilante	Romance	Romance	Trials	Conquest
Comedy	Blue Comedy	Farce	Burlesque	Satire	Screwball	Screwball	Clown	Satire
Drama	Apocalypse	Fable	Film Noir	Disaster	Lonesome	Clans/Crew	Shadow	Anthology/Memoires
Sagas	Space Opera	Epic	Detective	Police Procedural	Frontier	Clans/Crew	Nemesis	Clans/Factions
Horror	Dystopia	Dark Fantasy	Crime	Hatred	Isolation	Survival	Cannibal	Survival

If you want to know more about writing Immersive Worlds.