Genre Structure Conventions Explained

Every genre has a contract with its reader and breaking it by accident loses them. This explains the structural conventions of your genre: length and scene count, where the tropes must land, the unspoken reader contract, the common mistake, and the one rule worth breaking on purpose. Know the form before you decide which part to defy.

Explain the structural conventions that define a well-formed short story in the {GENRE} genre. Cover: (1) Expected story length range and scene count, (2) Where genre-specific tropes must appear to satisfy reader expectations, (3) The unspoken contract between writer and reader in this genre, (4) The most common structural mistake writers make in {GENRE} short fiction, (5) One structural rule that can be broken for effect, and how to signal to the reader that the break is intentional. Use at least two published short story examples from {GENRE} to illustrate your points.