The Top 5 Easiest Genres to Write
Ollie Ander
Is probably just a couple cats in a trench-coat—the hair shedding and sunlight napping are highly suspect.
Writing isn’t easy. Anyone who's genuinely pursued it is sure to agree on that, regardless of what they write. That said, there are some genres and forms of writing that could objectively be considered easier to write than others. If you’re burned out on a project, or just want to take a casual foray into something new, here are the five genres that are the easiest to write!
Short Stories
Great authors tend to tell new writers to "start with short stories." And I agree! As with many of the genres mentioned below, writing a short story isn’t easy so much as it is more manageable. A great short story can take more time to craft than a novel chapter, despite their comparable lengths, but they can be written far faster than an entire novel, while containing the same start-to-finish elements.
Short stories are quicker to write, based on word count, but they are also quicker to revise. Going over a draft of a novel could take days, whereas a short story can be re-read and edited within a few hours. More time saved means more time spent writing the next short story!
Give yourself a break by starting a smaller project. You may even find that a short story inspires you to write something longer, like a novella or full-blown novel, and that will be all the easier since you have groundwork already laid out!
Autobiographies or Memoirs
That’s right, write about yourself—there’s nothing and no one you know better! Remembering the things you’ve done is way easier than imagining entire worlds, characters, and storylines from scratch.
Autobiographies and memoirs are slightly different. An autobiography is a full summation of your life—and the prominent events in it—until your current point, whereas $ memoirs$ tend to focus on a theme and only cover specific moments that support the message.
Both are privy to anecdotes, but they have different ends: to meander for the sake of storytelling (to be charismatic), or to strengthen a thesis.
Of course, it’s not "easy" to write an engaging autobiography, or to find a theme in your life worth writing a memoir about, but the act of collecting information is significantly less work because it’s just your life. If you actively keep a journal, most of the work is already done for you!
Even if you don’t plan to pursue writing an autobiography or memoir fully to publication, these are great genres to practice writing in—and who knows, maybe you’ll find something in yourself to inspire others that you’d never even recognized before.
Freeform Poetry
Poetry is an art form, and true art is hard to create. It takes time and dedication. However, with the rise of $ internet writing$ , short form and free verse poetry have become popular for the genre.
The genre of poetry was once tightly gatekept, strictly confined to verse structures and elevated to the point of inspiring analysis fatigue. Thankfully those practices have been left behind, and anyone that wants to write in unstructured prose is free to do so and receive recognition for it.
The best part about writing poetry or prose is that it’s suited for online sharing. You don’t have to $ collect a bunch of pieces to publish$ —you can share your work on an individual basis, whenever and wherever you like.
Young Adult
Featuring Young Adult on this list is not a dig at the genre. It’s not that Young Adult books can’t have sprawling world-building or engaging characters, but it is more acceptable for them to have simpler premises and execution. It’s a benefit to true Young Adult books not to have overly complex concepts, multiple layers deep.
Young Adult has become a "comfort read" for all ages above the prerequisite of teenagehood. Books often get miscategorized and judged because of that varied audience range, but that’s a topic for another day. Young Adult should be for young adults, so although you can broach deep or heavier topics, they should also be palatable to the intended demographic.
Keep your characters simple, plug into a story structure, take it easy, and enjoy writing your story. Shake off Deepness expectations with a genre that can make the $ planning and writing process$ a whole lot easier!
Romance
Romance is the most saturated genre on the market, which should speak to its $ ease to write and publish$ . To write a romance, all you need are two characters and a spark, but I didn’t put it at the top of the list because the genre also requires an instinct for chemistry. Not all of us have that innate ability to foster character chemistry, and many steer away from intimate scenes like the plague due to their lack thereof.
It’s not easy to write a compelling relationship, but those with the gift for writing romance tend to have significantly higher than average output. Practice up, make some characters fall in love, and you could be publishing in no time.
One of the key things that makes romance an "easy" genre to write in, much like YA, is the expectations of the readers. Romance is the lifeblood of services like $ Kindle Unlimited$ ; the readers are voracious, constantly cycling through to find their next read.
Because of their reading habits, the general audience for romance is much more forgiving when it comes to minor mistakes (grammar, syntax, editing) that might otherwise take many more drafts and time to catch. Capturing a sense of passion is the priority above all else, which makes the weight of all the other minute aspects that go with writing a bit easier to process. Learn $ how to start your first romance novel$ .
Honorable Mention: Articles & (Personal) Essays
I would be remiss not to mention articles and personal essays as easy forms of writing to dabble in. Articles’ difficulty to write will largely depend on the topic you wish to cover, but when it comes to the technical aspects, they all conform to the essay structure of Introduction, Body, and Conclusion, guided by a thesis. For example, if you’re writing a personal essay, all you are doing is guiding your personal opinion/experience through that formula—no extra research or time spent worrying over story-flow required: easy!
Perhaps the difficulty of the genre you want to write in isn’t the problem, but the speed at which you’re achieving progress in it? Not to worry, check out this outstanding article on $ how to write faster than ever$ to help get you through any writing slog dilemma!
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