| mermaid_radio | What's your genre? |
    17,588 / 50,000 Joined: Oct 1, 2002
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Oct 26, 2009 - 07 58 |
I'm writing a horror novel this year for Nano. Other years I have tried other genres.... but those were the years I did not make it to 50k! Since really horror is my first love I think I'll have a better chance of winning this year if I go back to it. What about everyone else? |
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52,570 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 09 19
Sci fi, as always. But I'm changing it up a little bit: the last two years I wrote near-future stories set on Earth. This year I'm writing about a struggling colony on a far-flung alien world.
51,810 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 15 42
My story's got mythology, religion, adventure, mysticism, realism. I suppose it'd be classed as 'dark fantasy' but I don't like that sticker. Maybe just fantasy, but I like to call it 'story'.
If it were a graphic novel, it'd fit under DC's VERTIGO imprint, to be sure.
34,548 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2009 - 10 47
Mine is sci-fi, but is also largely political. No aliens or anything like that, just people who don't really get along that are desperate to find a new planet. I like to think of it as a subspace cold war.
2,349 / 50,000
Oct 31, 2009 - 15 43
I'm having trouble deciding on my genre. At this point I'm just sticking with "mainstream fiction", but I'm not really sure that's... accurate. I'm used to writing YA novels, but due to the content of this story, I'm not sure it could be considered YA. Mrr. It's difficult. I'll have a better idea once I actually start writing.
----------42,511 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 15 54
Regency Romance, which I used to love in college.
------------ Aspen
The perfect is the enemy of the fast. The good is the enemy of the fast. The halfway decent is the enemy of the fast.
--- Gail Carson Levine
27,152 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 16
Probably the best possible genre for this would be New Weird--it would do the most to explain it all. Not to say there aren't other influences in there, but that's the one that jumps out at me.
----------_________
2007: Hotaru (unfinished)
2008: WoWNoWriMo (won!)
2009: Ghedflaeg
52,570 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 26
Does this mean you're a fan of China Mieville? I believe he coined New Weird. He definitely writes it (and very well).
27,152 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 58
Does this mean you're a fan of China Mieville? I believe he coined New Weird. He definitely writes it (and very well).
Yes, and Clive Barker, who could conceivably lumped in with him occasionally. Certainly for things like Abarat.
----------_________
2007: Hotaru (unfinished)
2008: WoWNoWriMo (won!)
2009: Ghedflaeg
17,588 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 05 12
What book would you recommend reading by China Mieville if I've never read his stuff before? I've heard the phrase "New Weird" because they use it from time to time in The Third Alternative (horror magazine out of England now renamed Black Static.)
----------13,123 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 05 33
Last year was my first year, and I succeeded in breaking the 50k mark with a fantasy novel.
----------This year I am trying something more sci-fi. The world is set in the future, and is a developing story told from many points of view. Watchmen really made me want to tell a story from multiple views and let it build up together piece by piece, so we'll see if I can manage it.
"What am I fighting for?
There must be something more.
For all these words I sing."
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
54,705 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 10 24
I wouldn't worry about signing a genre to it until you finish writing your novel. It doesn't matter what you call it at this point.
----------Good luck and keep in touch.
Tom Mach
www.TomMach.com
52,570 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 13 17
Perdido Street Station. Definitely.
51,810 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 14 10
Second Ted's recommendation of Perdido Street Station. It's FULL of ideas and mad brilliance.
51,810 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 14 16
Watchmen really made me want to tell a story from multiple views and let it build up together piece by piece, so we'll see if I can manage it.
Watchmen was tour de force in comics form and left a lot to be desired in the movie. From my youth, there was a book by T. Ernesto Bethancourt that I can't recall the title of that switched narrators every chapter. Good guy, bad guy, good guy II, good guy, bad guy.
It was about a young genius who managed to transplant his brain into a computer. The Mortal Instruments, I think. Maybe? I dunno. An interesting device. Good luck with it!
13,123 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 15 22
Sounds like an interesting book!
----------If you remember the title, you should post it.
"What am I fighting for?
There must be something more.
For all these words I sing."
27,152 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 27
I'd also say Un Lun Dun, mostly because that was the first one I read and the one that made me fall in love with it all.
----------_________
2007: Hotaru (unfinished)
2008: WoWNoWriMo (won!)
2009: Ghedflaeg