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nilchance8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
This is a weird question for me to answer. I'll start with the easy one.
I go through phases. My favorite genre to write, right now, is horror. Not splatter-gore horror, although that's fun, but slow creepifying behind you horror. The stuff that gets me is the stuff I want to write. I think part of what I like about it is that I've never tried to write it before, and so it's fresh and challenging.
All of what I write has an undercurrent of love. Erotic, familial or just bff-ery, whatever, so long as it's love. I'm a big stupid romantic under all the cynicism. Nobody I write fights the big bad just because it's the right thing to do. (I went sideways into Kohlberg's stages of moral development and how the highest stage is universal ethics trumping family love, or that you would refuse to steal medication for your sick wife because it's wrong to steal in any situation, and how I think that ideal is on CRACK, but. I'll spare you the rant.) So I guess you could say my major genre is romance? But yeah. It varies by the day and what I'm writing.
My comfort genre is, and has always been, the brain-candy fantasy. I grew up on Redwall, on Elfquest (gee, wonder where my polyamory and soulbond kinks came from?) and on old-school Anita Blake, and so my comfort reading reflects that. Strong heroines! Heterosexual life partner warriors! Epic battles! Loving descriptions of weaponry! Every time I get sick, I re-read Jacqueline Carey or Anne Bishop's Dark Jewels trilogy, which are both so dogeared and bent spined that it's sad.
However, I read pretty much every genre out there, fiction and non. I'm even starting to get into westerns because of Stephen King. I just, um, I read everything that looks vaguely interesting. That's how I roll.
This is a weird question for me to answer. I'll start with the easy one.
I go through phases. My favorite genre to write, right now, is horror. Not splatter-gore horror, although that's fun, but slow creepifying behind you horror. The stuff that gets me is the stuff I want to write. I think part of what I like about it is that I've never tried to write it before, and so it's fresh and challenging.
All of what I write has an undercurrent of love. Erotic, familial or just bff-ery, whatever, so long as it's love. I'm a big stupid romantic under all the cynicism. Nobody I write fights the big bad just because it's the right thing to do. (I went sideways into Kohlberg's stages of moral development and how the highest stage is universal ethics trumping family love, or that you would refuse to steal medication for your sick wife because it's wrong to steal in any situation, and how I think that ideal is on CRACK, but. I'll spare you the rant.) So I guess you could say my major genre is romance? But yeah. It varies by the day and what I'm writing.
My comfort genre is, and has always been, the brain-candy fantasy. I grew up on Redwall, on Elfquest (gee, wonder where my polyamory and soulbond kinks came from?) and on old-school Anita Blake, and so my comfort reading reflects that. Strong heroines! Heterosexual life partner warriors! Epic battles! Loving descriptions of weaponry! Every time I get sick, I re-read Jacqueline Carey or Anne Bishop's Dark Jewels trilogy, which are both so dogeared and bent spined that it's sad.
However, I read pretty much every genre out there, fiction and non. I'm even starting to get into westerns because of Stephen King. I just, um, I read everything that looks vaguely interesting. That's how I roll.
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Date: 2010-07-02 01:24 pm (UTC)and word to that ideal being on crack.