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8. 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.

Comments

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I grinned SO HARD when I saw that icon just now :D :D

and word to that ideal being on crack.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

ELFQUEST, FTW! :D

I have some of the graphic novels and I love them. I keep wanting to prod people into writing Recognition fics, lol.


I don't know if you're into American Idol fandom, but I think you would like seperis, both as a writer and as someone who's meta and thoughts on things you'd find interesting. She just did a bit at her lj about the Blood as human bees that I found entertaining. :D


I loved old school Anita Blake, if by which you mean the first 1-4 books or so, before LKH turned into a very bad porn writer with even worse characterization and Issues. ~That Anita reminded me of V.I.Warshawski in her sandpapery tenderness and capability.


Hmmm...have you read Sharon Green's The Blending series? Very repetitive in the beginning, basically the same story re-told from the different characters' pov. But there's some very interesting ideas about powers and group bonding in there, and you can see her improving as she goes along-the second series is better, imo. Worth getting from a library, if you don't want to risk cash on unknowns.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

And for westerns, if you don't read Shane, you're missing out! :D