The age old question: Write to market or write that asteroid-hopping, fugitive, talking bologna sandwich time travel saga?

Finding an audience and defining your book’s genre are closely related. Let’s start by looking at some genres and subgenres:

You’ve probably heard of three act story structure. If not here’s a quick recap from Reedsy:

• Act I - Setup: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Plot Point One

• Act II - Confrontation: Rising Action, Midpoint, Plot Point Two

• Act III - Resolution: Pre Climax, Climax, Denouement

Here are some of my highlights from the book The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. My favorites are in bold. Every person doing creative work should read this book.