I've written in several genres, formats and mediums over the years. Each has its own requirements, expectations and parameters: short stories, novellas (generally under 40,000 words), novels, poetry, screenplays, television scripts, and stage plays. For now let's focus on some working definitions for genre fiction, nonfiction, and biography/autobiography.

For that past 15 years I've written primarily mysteries, thrillers, and some horror/supernatural fiction. I've also written countless blog posts, columns and articles, but that's for another day and would require more words than most people want to read on this, so let's narrow it down. Note that a lot of these apply to the genres in any form: movies, stories, TV shows, books  and more.