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21ST Century Major Genres
21ST Century Major Genres
BLOG or WEBLOG
1. FLASH FICTION It is an online journal or informational website displaying
It is a medium of brief and enclosed stories. information in the reverse chronological order, with the latest
Its average word count ranges anywhere from five to 1,500 words, posts appearing first.
but the consensus is that the maximum tops out at 2,000. It is a platform where a writer or even a group of writers share
Also called short shorts, nanotales, micro-stories, postcard fiction. their views on an individual subject.
Characteristics of Flash Fiction The main purpose of a blog is to connect you to the relevant
a. Brevity. Regardless of the specific word count, flash fiction audience.
attempts to condense a story into the fewest words possible. To Common Features
look at it another way, flash fiction tries to tell the biggest, richest, a. Header with the menu or navigation bar
most complex story possible within a certain word limit. b. Main content area with highlighted or latest blog posts
b. A beginning, middle, and end. In contrast to a reflection, most c. Sidebar with social profiles, favorite content, or call-to-action
flash fiction tends to emphasize plot. While there are certainly d. Footer with relevant links like a disclaimer, privacy policy,
exceptions to this rule, telling a complete story is part of the contact page, etc.
excitement of working in this condensed form.
c. A twist or surprise at the end. Again, there are plenty of 3. HYPERPOETRY
exceptions to this rule, but setting up expectations and then This genre is also called cyberpoetry.
turning them upside down in a short space is one hallmark of Hyperpoetry works on the web.
successful flash fiction. It is basically just traditional work uploaded.
6 Categories Hypertext poetry is the new genre of literature that use the
a. Flash fiction: Max 1500 words. computer screen as medium, rather than the printed page.
b. Sudden fiction: Max 750 words. This literary work relies on the qualities unique to a digital
c. Drabble, or microfiction: Max 100 words. environment, such as linked World Wide Web pages or effects
d. Dribble, or minisaga: Max 50 words. such as sound and movement.
e. Twitterature: Max 280 characters.
f. Six-word story: Any story with a single-digit word count is a 4. MOBILE TEXTULA
category unto itself. Textula is a poetry genre mastered by Frank Rivera.
Entire poems are written and read on mobile phones.
Traces its origins to traditional tagalog form of poetry called Sometimes called “what-if” books, speculative literature changes
Tanaga. the laws of what’s real or possible as we know them in our
Text tula or Textula employs communication technology in the current society, and then speculates on the outcome
sharing of tanaga. The terms was largely associated with only the science fiction
A short poetry in a form of tanaga, dalit, and diona that is sent genre in the late twentieth century, as science fiction is a widely-
through SMS on mobile phone with your friends, families, loved read genre that contains speculative elements.
ones, and through netizens. The term expanded in the twenty-first century to encompass
It consists of 4 lines with 7 syllables each. more subgenres beyond just science fiction, like fantasy and
dystopian literature. Today, speculative fiction is a blanket term
5. CHICK LIT for the stories that take place beyond our known world.
A genre of fiction concentrating on young women and their
emotional lives.
Women’s fiction is a wide-ranging literary genre that includes
various types of novels that generally appeal more to women
than men.
They are usually written by women, are addressed to women,
and tell one particular story about women.
The genre description is an umbrella term that covers main
stream novels, romantic fiction
6. SPECULATIVE FICTION
The term “speculative fiction” was used for the first time by
Robert Heinlein in 1947.
Speculative fiction is a literary “super genre,” which
encompasses a number of different genres of fiction, each with
speculative elements that are based on conjecture and do not exist
in the real world.