One Genre You Can't Write

I don't think DreamGirls counts as chick lit because it's a) based on a true story and b) a musical turned movie. Chick lit/movies would be like The Devil Wears Prada, The Nanny Diaries etc.

As far as genres... I can't stand sci-fi, so I'm sure I couldn't write it. I don't think I'd be very good at mystery. Other than that I haven't thought about it.

Mostly agreed on this point. Any chick lit written after the turn of the 20th century is of zero interest to me.

Chick-lit definitely. Het. Romance is difficult for me because I mainly write about gay men (stick with what you know is the policy I go by). Similarly I cant write any erotic scene featuring a female character without it sounding clinical.

I have a basic knowledge of science but if you told me to write a good or halfway decent science fiction book without research I wouldn't be able to do it. Plus, scientific articles tend to bore me. I think this is another case of stick with what you know. My best subject is history so I feel more comfortable writing about the past or a setting close to the historical past rather than on a spaceship somewhere in the future.

I probably could write a halfway decent western if I tried but the genre bores me to no end.

I never tried to write a mystery or thriller but I just know that I would mess it up. The same applies to YA fiction. If I wrote something in that genre, I just know that the main character would tell me: "Why wont you let me use the f-word like all of your other characters? And don't tell me that I will remain a virgin throughout this monstrosity."

I can't write humor. No matter how hard I attempt to make it humorous it always turns out to be serious. Apparently I'm just not that funny :P

I've been told numerous times that I'm very good at writing romance, but I hate to do it. I have very little romance in my stories, and most of them are tragic romances.

So I guess I can't/won't write humor and romance.

I also can't do chick-lit. I don't want to make people cry!

I also suck at Romance, unless you like the kind of romance that is accompanied by death or gratuitious amounts of inappropriate sex.

Hmm, can't write supernatural horror because I terrify myself too badly and am not willing to sacrifice my own sanity for it.

Mysteries are also one of those odd things... I don't have the subtlety for it. Mine end up being like ScoobyDo episodes. Who was it? THE ONLY OTHER PERSON IN THE EPISODE THAT ISN'T ONE OF YOU GUYS!

Anything else I could give a good crack at, I guess. Maybe everyi NaNo I should make it a point to write for a different genre to see what happens.

Anything historical (including period fiction) leaves me feeling as though I'm trying to eat dry leaves. History has always felt that way to me. I'm one of those people who are still wide eyed in wonder, awe & inpiration at science, technology and the other amazing things of the present time, and who optimistically sees yet more wonders coming in the future. History feels like a bland desert to me & writing in a way which used history as a context it is something I wouldn't want to stomach.

Hope that doesn't offend anyone. Of course, as I have never in my life been interested in history I have almost zero knowledge of it, which means that I'm judging it from a position of almost complete ignorance. Also, my lack of knowledge about history would, on its own, make it almost impossible for me to write in the genres that required it.

Well, one thing I have indeed learned from my novel is that I can write humor and angst in the same novel, and it works strangely enough.

I can write romance, but if sex is involved, I have problems with it. So erotic is out for me.

I might be able to write mystery, considering how much my readers drive themselves crazy trying to figure out what I am going to do next in what I write now, I must do decently enough at keeping them in suspense and not giving everything away.

I think sci-fi would be hard for me. I prefer fantasy and historical stuff over futuristic stuff any day. I would probably suck at horror also. I know I definitely couldn't do religious either.

I don't think I could write purely humor. I can do wonderful comic relief scenes, but just straight up humor I can only do for a short work. Not too sure about chick lit. I would probably be fine with young adult.

But I admit, I prefer fanfiction most definitely.

I can't write fanfiction. Now before everyone jumps at me, it's most certainly NOT because I think it's bad - I think it's great! But I've always had difficulty with it.

How it works... when I'm writing my own original work, I'm in full creative control. What I say goes. But with fanfiction, I have to work with characters and a setting that aren't mine. I get so anxious about making sure that everything is right and that the characters are acting as they should do that I just cannot create a story. It's really, really difficult stuff, and I wind up running back to my own original universe where things are a hell of a lot easier. I admire anyone who can just happily fit a good story into an already established canon (anyone can write a bad one, sure, but creating something worth reading around those constraints... tough work).

As for genres I can't write because I don't want to (as opposed to fanfic, where I really, really wish I could), I guess chick lit and romance. They just don't do anything for me... way too "real life". I need something more outlandish, hence why I stick to fantasy.

That's exactly why I find fanfic harder to write, and more of a challenge - so it's encouraging to see someone who feels the same way, albeit who then chooses to stick with original fiction!

I found that there was no challenge with my original characters, because they could change personalities and no-one would know - with fanfic, there was the challenge of having to use the characters, and make them seem like the ones people already knew.

I would find it hard to write fantasy, I think. I wouldn't choose to write it, as I don't read it. Nor so much pure sci-fi.

Hmm. I think if I put my mind to it, I could write anything. But there are some things I know I really am not interested in learning to write. The first one that came to mind was historical fiction. ESPECIALLY historical romance. Jump on me if you wish, but I would dunk my brain in acid before trying to force a properly researched historical romance to come from my literary fingertips. Unless it deals with timetravel and therefore becomes historical fantasy, I'm going to explode. And even then, not so likely.

Second on the list would be chic lit. I like violence too much to write a good 'girly' story. What I write generally falls into the lines of urban fantasy/mystery/suspence/boy novels. So chic lit is out. Not that I don't include some romance, but once it gets beyond cute-with-a-dash-of-violence, I can't write it. I could never take myself seriously writing erotica.

And last but not least, I could never write a western.

And probably not literary fiction either. ACTIONDRAMAANDEXCITMENTISNECESSARY.

Yeah. I'm overtired and brain dead, give me a break!

I guess Chick Lit as well, but that could be because I have no idea what it is. O_o Young adult or children's stories are far beyond my ability to write as well. Science Fiction is possible, but very, very difficult and I'd rather stay away from it. (I like reading/watching SF stuff, but all the technology and things are... too difficult XD) And I can't write explicitly erotic scenes without turning bright red and referring to the private places as exactly that or 'down there'. So I guess I'm not much of an Erotic writer either.

I'm not very good at romance as a primary genre for long stuff, or more than about a thousand words of pure romance, whether it's het, girl/girl, or guy/guy (my preferred kind of romance).

I also doubt my ability to write sci-fi, even though I like sci-fi. Fantasy I can do, but I think sci-fi would be an issue.

The genre I can't write and would like to write is mystery fiction, preferably gritty modern murder mysteries. I love to read them. I adore Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Tony Hillerman, Mary Higgins Clark, Linda Fairstein... But I can't for the life of me write one. Sigh.

I don't think DreamGirls counts as chick lit because it's a) based on a true story and b) a musical turned movie. Chick lit/movies would be like The Devil Wears Prada, The Nanny Diaries etc.

Whoops. I'm such an idiot >_>

I see, it's your opinion, so it's okay :). Actually I consider it a good thing. You don't write what you don't know about xD

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I don't think I'd be able to write historical fiction (yawn) or western (yawn) or chick lit (too formulaic)

this nano is the longest thing I've ever written, it's a superhero genre (they need to add that to the genre list for next year :) with a (tiny) bit of scifi in there. I don't generally like scifi, b/c I don't think you should have to justify your story as being plausible. I did employ a few scifi type explanations when a character defibrilated his brother and later when he time traveled with tachyons. generally, it's not a scifi. there's also vampire pirates (vampirates) in there.

so, it belongs nicely in "other genres"

I haven't tried Mystery or thrillers. I haven't gotten a chance to write historical fiction, but I need a lot more information before I can do that. I want to write either 19th century or Regency fiction. I'm too timid to get something utterly wrong. So I've been writing it into my fantasy work instead.

Next year I may try a Mystery Thriller Science Fiction/ Paranormal. But I'm not really fond of whodunit mysteries that much. I'm more involved in how it was done in the first place and the psychological effects of the actions. I was going to do it this year, but I couldn't quite get it. I'm missing some experience. Not to mention that the book opens with a sex scene...

I like trying genres I'm not good at. I invariably learn something from it. I suck at mysteries and romance, so I'll write them. Just maybe throwing other stuff with it.

I wrote chic lit accidentally without knowing what it was. And none of them take in an office. Both protagonists were married... and while both of them had different kinds of bad mothers, it never fell into the other common pitfalls. I never wrote kisses as the kind of thing that makes people forget where they are. (If they did, then their mouth would stop moving. Kissing is not heroine.)

Point is, I like writing things I don't understand. And I watch the genres I can't write well. (Mystery, romance, and medical).

That one ^ but you said it better.

And, add to that adventure, thriller, mystery, mainstream or anything plot-driven. I suck at plot.

One genre I can't seem to write is horror/thriller. I don't know, to me it doesn't ever seem to have the proper amount of horror.

I couldn't write murder mystery type novels, with cops and CSIs and serial killers and the like. The genre itself doesn't appeal to me, unless the author comes up with an interesting gimmick that shakes up the formula - but even that can only take you so far.

lets just say what i can write. my list includes angst and random humor. humorangst works too. that's it. the end. finis.

I don't think I could write fanfiction. Something about writing about a world and characters that aren't mine deters me for some reason.0.o

Why didn't I think of that? I'm adding fanfiction to my list for the reasons fruit_cocktail_man said and for my own personal feelings toward fanfic.

Romance and horror. Romance, because for some unfathomable reason, I have the unrelenting urge to turn it into erotic fiction, and horror because I keep wanting to make it funny.

Well, for that matter, anything with too many Serious Business type things. I can't take them seriously in real life, so I have issues keeping a straight face, figuratively, while writing about them.

Fantasy & sci-fi! It's really annoying, because I keep coming up with great ideas for neat steampunk stories and I just .. can't write them. Anything that can't be explained by science (even my MC has *wings* that I explain away with science) I just have this complete mental block about.

I write romance. but Its only romantic for the type who think the movie Hannibal was romantic. because I like to use fear.. but in a romantic way.

colour me insane

Erotica, obviously, because of my age and um, innocence?

Historical fiction I would loveeeee to be skilled at, but couldn't write to save my life. Too much research, and its so, I don't know, formal. You're set in too many constraints, in my opinion.

Lastly, horror. No, never. I'm the biggest scardey cat around, literally- I watched Scary Movie 3 and slept with my lights on for 9 days. Yes, SCARY MOVIE 3. If I started to write about it, it would hover around my head all day, and I'd be scared to death of my own creation. Yikes.

Judging by the quality of my 2007 nano, it would seem that all genres are equally baffling to me.

Must. Practice. More.

I can't write/stand trashy romance novels. I've never been a big romance person [I'm much more into sword fights, big dramatic scenes and, well, actiony fantasy] and it drives me insane to watch movies that are based around seeing if two characters either a) get married b) get together or c) get into bed together. I know not ALL romance movies are like this, and I'm sure most romance books aren't either, but...argh. I can't do it.

Historical stuff and Science Fiction
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Omg, can't do that. I don't really like science fiction so ... that should explain itself xD Historical Fiction would include a lot of research and because I'm really really lazy and I'm only writing what I know or what's easy to look up ... well, I wouldn't have the patience too look up almost everything about one special time or period and such D:
I guess I stick to normal life stuff then xD that's easier for me when it comes to the setting