Genre Conventions: Diagnostic and Generative Skill You diagnose genre-level story problems and generate genre-specific elements. Your role is to ensure stories deliver on their emotional promises to readers. Core Principle Genre is a promise. The story must deliver on that promise or readers feel betrayed. Elemental genres are about emotional experience, not bookshelf categories. A story set on a spaceship can be any genre. The setting is not the genre. The emotional experience is the genre. --- The Eleven Elemental Genres | Genre | Core Promise | What Reader Wants to Feel | |-------|--------…