Multiple Genre's

[Lord_Johnny]

So, obviously most stories have at least a smattering of different genre's. However, what is the thought on deliberately including multiple genre concepts as part of the core basis of the story?

Personally, I think that it could be done wrong pretty easily with too much complication, but if done correctly, I think this would lead to a very in depth plot that was stimulating and above average in quality.

Your thoughts?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I've been contemplating a story that centers on three couples: a BDSM pair into bondage, a gay male couple, and a married man and woman having an affair. Sooooo....LW, GM and BDSM. Lol.

If I ever do it, I'd put it in Novels.

I have no ongoing issues with categories and genres. This was a deliberate idea to explore how these (seemingly) different couples are the same (in some way.)

Very interesting concept, in general.

So, obviously most stories have at least a smattering of different genre's. However, what is the thought on deliberately including multiple genre concepts as part of the core basis of the story?

Personally, I think that it could be done wrong pretty easily with too much complication, but if done correctly, I think this would lead to a very in depth plot that was stimulating and above average in quality.

Your thoughts?

 

[oggbashan]

It can be a very easy way to annoy readers.

Most readers seem to like one or two categories and avoid others. If your story covers Incest and Gay Male as well as more mainstream categories you could upset the audience.

 

[Jay321]

I just wrote a story (insert shameless promotion here) https://www.literotica.com/s/jase-and-cat that includes Incest BDSM lesbian, and I'm sure there is another category or two that it would fit into.

Thus far it has been well received in the incest column. Why there? It is the one that I thought the most people would be squicked out about. Although it is possible, if you try to keep something in one category, I think that you would loose a bit in the story.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

So, obviously most stories have at least a smattering of different genre's. However, what is the thought on deliberately including multiple genre concepts as part of the core basis of the story?

I do it. I think it cost me 0.1 stars in Captured Princess, but I don't care.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I mostly write F/F, which means pretty much everything ends up being multi-genre without trying for it. In Literotica terms, mine are:

Lesbian/Romance/Novel (minor BDSM, very minor interracial if you count Anglo/Greek)
Lesbian/BDSM/EC
Lesbian/Romance/Horror
Poetry/Spoken/Comedy/Erotic Coupling/Horror/Nonhuman
[unspecified gender]/Romance maybe?/Horror/Nonhuman
Lesbian/Interracial/Romance/Poetry/SFF/minor Nonhuman

 

[Carnal_Flower]

For the most part, true. Depends on your goals and how you'd set it up.

I wouldn't want to toss everything in a blender and just turn it on. I'd keep the core fetishes separate.

The idea of comparing couples who you wouldn't think have anything in common just from their sexual tastes and finding, once you dig deeper, those ways in which they're dealing with the same issues, is interesting to me.

This kind of story wouldn't be a stroker. It's just a story.

It can be a very easy way to annoy readers.

Most readers seem to like one or two categories and avoid others. If your story covers Incest and Gay Male as well as more mainstream categories you could upset the audience.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The OP makes no sense when you learn the meaning of GENRE.

Its like wondering why piggy banks are fulla different coins.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

genre is ordinary stuff, the word exists because ordinary stuff is usually surrounded by categorical stuff. genre's whats irrelevant.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Genre is almost clutter. TEX, LC, and PILOT are genre masters.

 

[TxRad]

Genre (/ˈʒɒ̃rə/, /ˈʒɒnrə/ or /ˈdʒɒnrə/; from French genre [ʒɑ̃ʁ(ə)], "kind" or "sort", from Latin genus (stem gener-), Greek γένος, gés) is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones is discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature. Poetry, prose, and performance each had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. Speech patterns for comedy would not be appropriate for tragedy, and even actors were restricted to their genre under the assumption that a type of person could tell one type of story best. In later periods genres proliferated and developed in response to changes in audiences and creators. Genre became a dynamic tool to help the public make sense out of unpredictable art. Because art is often a response to a social state, in that people write/paint/sing/dance about what they know about, the use of genre as a tool must be able to adapt to changing meanings.

Genre suffers from the same ills of any classification system. Genre is to be reassessed and scrutinized, and to weigh works on their unique merit. It has been suggested that genres resonate with people because of the familiarity, the shorthand communication, as well as the tendency of genres to shift with public mores and to reflect the zeitgeist. While the genre of storytelling has been relegated as lesser form of art because of the heavily borrowed nature of the conventions, admiration has grown. Proponents argue that the genius of an effective genre piece is in the variation, recombination, and evolution of the codes.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Genre (/ˈʒɒ̃rə/, /ˈʒɒnrə/ or /ˈdʒɒnrə/; from French genre [ʒɑ̃ʁ(ə)], "kind" or "sort", from Latin genus (stem gener-), Greek γένος, gés) is any category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones is discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature. Poetry, prose, and performance each had a specific and calculated style that related to the theme of the story. Speech patterns for comedy would not be appropriate for tragedy, and even actors were restricted to their genre under the assumption that a type of person could tell one type of story best. In later periods genres proliferated and developed in response to changes in audiences and creators. Genre became a dynamic tool to help the public make sense out of unpredictable art. Because art is often a response to a social state, in that people write/paint/sing/dance about what they know about, the use of genre as a tool must be able to adapt to changing meanings.

Genre suffers from the same ills of any classification system. Genre is to be reassessed and scrutinized, and to weigh works on their unique merit. It has been suggested that genres resonate with people because of the familiarity, the shorthand communication, as well as the tendency of genres to shift with public mores and to reflect the zeitgeist. While the genre of storytelling has been relegated as lesser form of art because of the heavily borrowed nature of the conventions, admiration has grown. Proponents argue that the genius of an effective genre piece is in the variation, recombination, and evolution of the codes.

Genre is a pile of dog shit in a landscape painting.

 

[TxRad]

Genre is a pile of dog shit in a landscape painting.

You have no idea what you are talking about. All you want to do is be that pile of dog shit and start trouble. Go takes your meds.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

You have no idea what you are talking about. All you want to do is be that pile of dog shit and start trouble. Go takes your meds.

genre is the snot hanging from your nose in your portrait.

 

[TxRad]

genre is the snot hanging from your nose in your portrait.

At least i have a portrait.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Musical genre is like when TEX rips a nosy beer fart into the microphone while singing THE STAR SPANGELD BANNER

 

[TxRad]

Musical genre is like when TEX rips a nosy beer fart into the microphone while singing THE STAR SPANGELD BANNER

Are you through being an asshat?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Are you through being an asshat?

I know genre better than Pilot knows your ass, so I can go forever. Genre is clutter and irrelevance. But genre is PC, and clutter is so rude.

 

[TxRad]

I know genre better than Pilot knows your ass, so I can go forever. Genre is clutter and irrelevance. But genre is PC, and clutter is so rude.

You don't have a clue, which is very obvious. Opinion doesn't mean a thing but that's all you have. Nothing new here.