What genre do you write?
I struggle to define what I'm writing. It takes place in a zombie apocalypse, but I wouldn't say its about zombies. Its about people, relationships, and hardship. Its a road trip, a tragedy and a comedy. It just happens to have zombies as a hardship to endure. How to I pick a buzzword to describe a whole story that isn't really about the thing you would define it by?
Two genres for me @DanIsWriting and they're as different as you can get: SciFi/Fantasy & political
@DanIsWriting I've found that you can get away with *anything* as long as you can justify it.
Which includes consistency, so maybe not so easy? All I know is if you give the reader a "Why" they'll come along with you on the nonsense.
@SLWeippert so the rainbow leading to the pot of gold is actually a cloud of nanobots made by the secret society of cyborg ninja werewolves who are the behind the real conspiracy surrounding Elon Musks purchase of twitter?
Of course... George Bush is a time traveling Leprechaun. It all makes sense now!
@SLWeippert Thats quite a combo. Sal Stein called that "double mumbo-jumbo", asking your reader to suspend their disbelief too far. Space vampires, werewolfs on the moon, robot wizards.
Star Wars had space wizards though, and that clearly worked.
Do you find it difficult to convince your audience your world is a reasonable suspension of disbelief?