Description
Most creatives pick one genre and stay there forever, convinced they can’t write anything else. Meanwhile, the skills they’d learn from trying romance, horror, comedy, sci-fi, or literary fiction would make their primary genre work ten times better. This planner is your permission slip to play. Inside you’ll find crash-course genre guides for 12 genres — mystery/thriller, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, literary fiction, comedy, memoir, poetry, children’s/YA, historical fiction, and creative non-fiction — each with a breakdown of genre conventions, reader expectations, key craft elements, and common pitfalls. You’ll get genre-specific writing exercises (try writing a romance scene if you’ve never done it — it’s harder than you think), cross-genre pollination pages for identifying which skills transfer between genres, a ‘Genre Mashup Lab’ for combining elements from multiple genres (because some of the best books defy categories), and a ‘Genre Discovery Journal’ for tracking what you learn about yourself as a writer by stepping outside your comfort zone. L.A. writes across genres professionally — novels, screenplays, stage plays, songs, poetry, non-fiction — and she’ll tell you straight: versatility is a superpower. This planner helps you build it.
