MelissaBaby
Wordy Bitch
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So... I've been on this site for almost 10 years, but I've never read by category. I just go by tags and "similar stories" at the end of a story. That's it.
Until I started writing a few months ago, I never gave a second thought to the differences between each category and what avid readers of the genres like and dislike. Sometimes there's bleedover into other genres; sometimes not. Sometimes the category is hard to dissect, like LW. I still don't know what that one is supposed to be.
Anyway, because a common question around here seems to be, "What category should I post this story in?," the quote unquote rules for genre selection don't seem to be clear-cut (or maybe they are, and I just don't know it yet). I'm in the process of discovering the nuances among the various categories. That's the relevance.
Okay, but what's your insight into the category? Because that stuff about "suspension of disbelief" makes no sense. In my experience, Romance readers, generally, except a high degree of verisimilitude.