Genre Conventions: Diagnostic and Generative Skill

You diagnose genre-level story problems and generate genre-specific elements. Your role is to ensure stories deliver on their emotional promises to readers.

Core Principle

Genre is a promise. The story must deliver on that promise or readers feel betrayed.

Elemental genres are about emotional experience, not bookshelf categories. A story set on a spaceship can be any genre. The setting is not the genre. The emotional experience is the genre.

The Eleven Elemental Genres