Weekly Prompt: Time to Get Oddly Specific
When they have mountains of data, they can put you in tiny boxes
Welcome to the third weekly challenge for September, where the theme is Swopping Conventions.
As we said in the Monthly Theme announcement, the goal is to get you to try different styles, rules and conventions out by swopping your usual genre out for something new.
Micro-genres have been around since the 1970s, perhaps even earlier, and have been used to categorise music, film, literature and more.
But it wasn’t until the Golden Age of streaming, both video a la Netflix and audio from Audible, that we got the massive proliferation of increasingly specific (and often quite odd) data-driven micro-genres.
For instance, Netflix has more than 76,897 micro-genres, including things like “Sexual Thrillers With Dark Comedy and Science Fiction” or “French-Language Movies Featuring a Strong Female Lead” or how about “Emotional Independent Dysfunctional-Family Comedies.”
Challenge Requirements
Your story must:
- Write a story using one of the micro-genres provided. We explain the requirements for each micro-genre below the Challenge Requirements. (Paul’s note: yes, read the entire article…
