{"id":1628,"date":"2017-08-22T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2017-07-03T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:46:30","slug":"writing-genres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/writing-genres\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Genres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1686\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bookswriting.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bookswriting.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bookswriting-180x135.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bookswriting-250x188.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Fiction writers have many genres to pick from when they sit down: mystery, romance, science fiction, medical\/police\/legal procedurals, horror, western, historical,\u00a0 comedy, adventure, fantasy, political thriller and more. New genres and sub-genres crop up every year as writers stretch their writing brains.<\/p>\n<p>My favorites are historical fiction, cozy mysteries (a sub-genre of mysteries), medical-police-legal procedurals, and women&#8217;s fiction. I enjoy having a host of characters to get to know and follow as they work through their problems or situations. I&#8217;ll leave the high adventure and new world making stories for my husband.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m moving my writing away from pointe shoes, but before I go, I&#8217;d like to ask, <strong>what are your favorite top 3-5 genres?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction writers have many genres to pick from when they sit down: mystery, romance, science fiction, medical\/police\/legal procedurals, horror, western, historical,\u00a0 comedy, adventure, fantasy, political thriller and more. New genres and sub-genres crop up every year as writers stretch their writing brains. My favorites are historical fiction, cozy mysteries (a sub-genre of mysteries), medical-police-legal procedurals, and women&#8217;s fiction. I enjoy having a host of characters to get to know and follow as they work through their problems or situations. I&#8217;ll leave the high adventure and new world making stories for my husband. I&#8217;m moving my writing away from pointe shoes,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,180,124],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-details-in-writing","category-musings","category-reader-suggestions","category-writing","tag-writing-genres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}