Genre Question

Williebee · Jan 13, 2008

For those folks who have seen the movie Crossroads (the Ralph Macchio guitar one, not the Britney Spears thing).

If it had been a book, what genre would the story be?

TIA

seun · Jan 14, 2008

Can't answer your question but I am curious why you ask.

dolores haze · Jan 14, 2008

I'd say - YA.

Mr Flibble · Jan 14, 2008

Tricky one.

Biblical coming of age story?
Or should that be paranormal?

Willowmound · Jan 14, 2008

Guitar-mastrubation.

Charlie Horse · Jan 14, 2008

Probably YA. At least it would be if I had written it.

preyer · Jan 14, 2008

if nothing else, it featured one of the very few pieces of music steve vai ever wrote that i could tolerate for more than a minute. vai, satriani, malmsteen... incredibly fast, just wish they could write good music. it was all about speed in the 80's. no one ever asked a guitarist if they could write music, rather 'how fast are you?'

anyhoo, i think it would be YA, too.

Williebee · Jan 14, 2008

seun-

Because I'm trying to figure out what genre something I've written belongs in.

I'll follow up with a more info (maybe a query, partial synopsis, etc.) elsewhere.

thanks to all who answered.

And I'm with you on the Steve Vai thing, preyer. but it was Clapton's work on it that blew me away.

David I · Jan 14, 2008

preyer said:
if nothing else, it featured one of the very few pieces of music steve vai ever wrote that i could tolerate for more than a minute. vai, satriani, malmsteen... incredibly fast, just wish they could write good music.

The Crying Machine? For the Love of God? Taras Bulba? I won't claim Malmsteen can write, but I think Vai can.

Sorry. That's off-topic, innit?

Williebee · Jan 14, 2008

OK, waffling here: Love of God is pretty amazing.

back to the topic. So, if we make the MC's NOT kids. Now what genre are we working with?

fantasy? literary fiction? How about Urban Myth (myth, a bit of the fantastical, somewhat along the lines of Charles DeLint, without the fairy creatures)

As I dance between the arguments of "write the story in you" and "write to a genre"....

Shadow_Ferret · Jan 14, 2008

It's been ages since I seen the movie, but wouldn't it just be mainstream fiction? I mean there weren't any supernatural elements in it, were there?

Dawnstorm · Jan 14, 2008

Folk myth to literature. Don't they call this "Magic Realism", these days?

Williebee · Jan 14, 2008

Dawnstorm- I love the phrase "lo real maravilloso" (roughly "marvelous reality"). But somehow, in mainstream American publishing, that feels like making up a genre to suit. But, magic realism does sound closer to the truth than anything else.

Shadow -- They went to hell for a guitar duel in the end, so yeah, there were some supernatural elements to it. Which is kind of the crux of my question. The supernatural element was important to the story, but not actively present through out.

grrr

James D. Macdonald · Jan 14, 2008

Williebee said:
For those folks who have seen the movie Crossroads (the Ralph Macchio guitar one, not the Britney Spears thing).

If it had been a book, what genre would the story be?

TIA

Fantasy.

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Williebee

Capeless, wingless, & yet I fly.

seun

Horror Man

dolores haze

international guttersnipe

Mr Flibble

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble

Willowmound

Lightly salted

Charlie Horse

Speaking in metaphors

preyer

excessively spartan

Williebee

Capeless, wingless, & yet I fly.

David I

Williebee

Capeless, wingless, & yet I fly.

Shadow_Ferret

Court Jester

Dawnstorm

punny user title, here

Williebee

Capeless, wingless, & yet I fly.

James D. Macdonald

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