genre-conventions
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
| Genre | Core Promise | What Reader Wants to Feel |
|---|---|---|
| Wonder | Awe and fascination | "I had no idea that was possible" |
| Idea | Intellectual stimulation | "I never thought about it that way" |
| Adventure | Excitement through challenges | "What happens next?" (external) |
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