760 - What Is Genre. 'Bangs' Versus 'Fringe.'

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How to figure out which genre you love or how to describe the book you're writing so the publishing industry will understand where it fits. Also, we explain how Americans came to call fringe "bangs." LINKS AND SPONSORS | Learn how you can get my LinkedIn Learning course free: https://t.co/coQuXJRtrT | GRAMMAR GIRL EMAIL NEWSLETTER | https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/newsletters | GRAMMAR POP iOS GAME | Optimized for iPad: http://bit.ly/iPadGrammarPop | For iPad and iPhone: http://bit.ly/GrammarPopMobile | PEEVE WARS CARD GAME | https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/grammar-girl-s-peeve-wars | GRAMMAR GIRL BOOKS | http://bit.ly/GrammarPopBooks | HOST: Mignon Fogarty | GRAMMAR GIRL IS PART OF THE QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS PODCAST NETWORK | VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL (833-214-4475)

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:04.8	Gramer girl here, I'm in Yonfokrity,
0:06.7	and you can think of me as your friendly guide
0:09.0	to the English language, writing history,
0:12.2	rules, and cool stuff.
0:14.0	Today, I have a segment about the different types
0:15.9	of fiction genres.
0:17.6	Another segment about fringe versus bangs.
0:20.4	And a family-led story about daddy walking.
0:23.4	Let's get started.
0:24.7	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:27.1	Writers often struggle with how exactly
0:29.9	to describe their stories to other people.
0:32.8	They make it asked, what genre is your book?
0:36.0	And they get stumped trying to give a pithy answer
0:38.6	to encompass an entire universe and cast of characters
0:42.2	they built up in their imaginations.
0:44.6	Well, stories come in many different flavors,
0:47.2	and some of those flavors are called genres.
0:51.3	The publishing industry finds categorizing books
0:53.7	by genre particularly useful and publishers typically
0:57.3	assign a genre to a book.
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