Genre Blending with Primary & Subordinate Conflicts

[Story_Marc]

So, first, I created a whole PDF which serves as a writing instructional book for plotting. It's in the link on the video if you wish to dig deeper into it. Uses a different method than anything you've heard before and this video touches on one of the uses with genre blending. Furthermore, I started working on ways to build on the system, with this case being how filter genre into it.

Hope this helps!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

But Okarun's name is Ken... :D

I tend to mix genres out of habit - grew up on a lot of American comic books which already mix genres (action, sci-fi, horror, romance - and people in carnival costumes added in for good measure), and then got really into it myself through role-playing games (my first published work was a horror adventure for a comic-book based role-playing game, Champions).

Most of my genre-mixing experiments, however, derived from probably the most successful genre-blending ever, Star Wars (aka "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope) - blended WWII, epic high fantasy, Asian mysticism, and pulp/serial era science fiction into one neat (though sometimes clunky) package.

 

[Story_Marc]

But Okarun's name is Ken... :D

I tend to mix genres out of habit - grew up on a lot of American comic books which already mix genres (action, sci-fi, horror, romance - and people in carnival costumes added in for good measure), and then got really into it myself through role-playing games (my first published work was a horror adventure for a comic-book based role-playing game, Champions).

Most of my genre-mixing experiments, however, derived from probably the most successful genre-blending ever, Star Wars (aka "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope) - blended WWII, epic high fantasy, Asian mysticism, and pulp/serial era science fiction into one neat (though sometimes clunky) package.

I've been thinking on this more during the week and, building on what I mention in this about genre blending, I'm wondering if it might be best to make a whole section of setting as a genre separate from plot.

Like how Star Wars has a Sci-Fi genre (and I can get more specific if I think on it with Space Opera stuff), but the actual plot is something else. And there's still those mystical elements to it as well that's part of the setting and blah blah blah.

It's a major W.I.P. as I haven't done a comprehensive dive in yet. Don't want to overextend myself with the sheer amount of things I'm working on.