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Genre Intelligence
Beat maps, archetypes, and tropes for 86 genres
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What's inside
86
Genres mapped
From epic fantasy and romantasy to cozy mystery, techno-thriller, and literary fiction: each genre profiled with its beats, reader expectations, and market notes.
Beat maps per genre
The structural beats readers of each genre expect, in order, with the flexibility notes that tell you which beats are load-bearing and which are negotiable.
Tropes and archetypes
The character archetypes and tropes that define each genre, framed as reader promises to keep or deliberately subvert rather than boxes to tick.
Comp titles and market context
Representative comparison titles per genre, useful for positioning, query letters, and knowing what your readers read last month.
Feeds the outliner
Pick a genre here and the Plot Outliner can scaffold your outline against that genre's beat map, so structure and market expectation stay connected.
What you can do
Built for fiction writers
Learn the beats of a new genre before drafting
Check a finished draft against genre expectations
Find comp titles for a query letter
Decide which tropes to keep or subvert
Position a cross-genre book honestly
Questions
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A reference library covering 86 fiction genres: the structural beats each genre expects, its defining tropes and archetypes, representative comp titles, and market notes. It is the research a genre-savvy editor carries in their head, made browsable.
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