One
of the writers in my advanced online class posted this article on our
weekly classroom discussion. She asked the provocative question: what
genre are you writing in?
Fiction,
I would've answered five years ago, because they were all fiction
writers in this small group. But her question went deeper than this:
what type of fiction are you writing and how will you present it to an
agent or publisher?
Publishing
has gotten quite complex at categorizing novels by certain qualities.
Is it award-capable? Does it have a happy or mixed ending? Is it a
commercial or literary plot?