I'm curious, since I write for the younger set and it's always nice to know that there're others out there doing kidlit. I know it's the same with other genres, so let's hear it. What's yours?
The manuscript I'm revising right now is a MG (middle grade) urban fantasy novel. I also work in YA (young adult) a lot, as well as regular fantasy, horror, contemporary, and historical stuff.
I've also been known to write some bad haikus and long, rhyming ballads. <^^>;
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-Allison Fraclose
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http://afraclose.livejournal.com/
http://www.myspace.com/afraclose
http://afraclose.blogspot.com/
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Oct 9, 2008 - 13 45
Romances for me, typically with science fiction or fantasy overtones, along with some erotica. I do both boy/girl and boy/boy romances, at the moment.
----------T.H.
51,169 / 50,000
Oct 9, 2008 - 14 19
For 2006 I did a young adult fantasy novel. This year it's popular fiction (as opposed to literary fiction).
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Oct 9, 2008 - 14 23
I'm doing horror/thriller this year. My "captured vampire" story idea, and I'm not really sure where I'll go with it.
Usually I do fantasy, and most of the time the slashy m/m stuff. And fanfic. Lots of fanfic over the years.
margaret
----------~not all who wander are lost~
2008: Don't Blink
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Oct 9, 2008 - 16 24
Hooray for urban fantasy! That's my favourite to write. This year, I'm (still) writing a fantasy spoof, or what I'd like to refer to as a fan/com! :)
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*Co-ML for Tucson, AZ*
You see these? You see these words? These are REVLON words!
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Oct 9, 2008 - 17 01
I am planning on a Sci-Fi Sitcom. It involves zombies, but it is not a horror. It is a comedy, so Sci-fi is the best place I can think to put it. I will also try to make it youth friendly, but I am not sure if my vernacular will be at that level.
----------I have a plethora of piniatas
52,878 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2008 - 10 39
This year, I'm doing a murder mystery with a bit of a sci-fi undertone. I started writing it once, but only got about 20 pages in. I'm going to start over from scratch for WriMo this year, because I decided I wanted to start it off a bit differently anyway. I currently have my basic outline through Chapter 9, and I'll spend the rest of this month doing some research on police methods and forensics to add a bit more realism to the story.
Not my usual fare, and a bit more difficult for me, as the subject is rather dark. Getting into the minds of a couple of the characters, including the perp, is going to be a stretch, because I have a very tough time imagining why anyone would enjoy hurting other people so viciously.
It should make for an interesting project, and once again, I'm shooting to wrap up by my birthday on the 22nd.
----------"We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."
2006 - The Daedalus Child - Winner.
2007 - Lana's Pack - Winner.
2008 - Precocious by Design - Winner
51,182 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2008 - 10 58
My genre is "SF," as in speculative fiction, encompassing horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. I lean towards fantasy with a little horror thrown in (nothing makes me happier than to hear I creeped someone out XD), but in layperson's terms, I like to make stuff up. Other than that I don't really stick to one particular setting or subgenre or another. I like it all... as long as I get to throw magic in or bend the laws of physics.
I write for myself, first and foremost, but my work would be divided by audience, I suppose. Sometimes my protagonists are very young and that probably puts them into MG/YA territory, and sometimes I write for more adult audiences. Such is the case this year.
----------2003 - The Long Road | 2004 - The Circle of Many Faces | 2006 - Searching for Sunset | 2007 - Souls in the City | 2008 - The Murmuring Mirrors
5,068 / 50,000
Oct 11, 2008 - 12 16
Pretentious Fiction. I'm a literature professor at a small midwestern university who has a drinking problem and is cheating on his wife with a graduate student. My novels tend to focus on midwestern university professors with drinking problems who are cheating on their wives with graduate students.
50,051 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2008 - 08 12
I'm writing a murder mystery/suspense/horror-esque attempt. XD
This is my first story in this sort of category, so I'm kind of excited for it.
50,242 / 50,000
Oct 12, 2008 - 17 11
I will be attempting literary fiction. My past writing has tended towards creative nonfiction and political ranting.
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Oct 12, 2008 - 21 50
I've been told my genre is 'magical realism', or maybe 'urban fantasy'. In any case, I set my stories in a mundane, contemporary setting, with an ambiguous magical element. In 'Anne the Healer', the FMC may or may not have had the ability to heal the the mortally ill. In 'The Ancestors of Star', the spirits of the tribe's dead act subtly on the living to protect the tribe's patrimony.
Dangerous Bill
----------Nano 2008: Tinaja:
Ben Loft, an artist and outdoorsman, is stranded in the desert and rescued by a woman who leads him to shelter and water. In the morning she is gone, but a sketch he made of her remains. He knows he'll meet her again.
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Oct 13, 2008 - 07 49
I have a fairly substantial idea for a picture book this year and am trying to find a way of working on it withing the WriMo guidelines. Any suggestions for substituting illustrations for word count? It seems like I saw something like this a few years back, just need to dig around in the forums a bit.
55,289 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2008 - 07 43
The book I think I'm drafting this year is a murder mystery with strong paranormal components -- it's a psychic-twins-separated-at-birth-who-meet-and-find-themselves-in-peril-from-their-parents'-killer sort of thing. ;-) There are two others I might decide to work on instead. One is a contemporary story about a student of Wicca who learns the hard way how tricky love spells can be -- and that's a sequel, sort of, to the novel I drafted last year. The other (and least likely) possibility for me is a fantasy-historical saga-paranormalish mystery.
Ashleen
----------meet me at www.AshleenOGaea.com
55,289 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2008 - 14 14
Mine's changed! I was gonna do a sort of paranormal mystery thing, but just in the last couple of days I've decided to go with -- well, it's not New Age, but that's sort of the category offered. It's about a student of Wicca who finds out the hard way that love spells are tricky. It's more or less a sequel to the novel I wrote last year, in that it's about the same priestess and involves one of her coveners. I think it's really contemporary chick-lit with a spiritual bent and a paranormal flavor.
Ashleen
----------meet me at www.AshleenOGaea.com
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Oct 16, 2008 - 19 59
This is my first year so I'm going to do some fiction set in the forgotten realms setting. I've the plot in head for a good five years now, maybe more... I just want to get it out of my head and move ti something else.
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Oct 16, 2008 - 20 18
Genre? Romance, the steamier the better. I have a hardheaded, rich literary agent and an equally hardheaded, equally successful novelist battling it out. I love a good romance.
----------Patricia Oshier Bruening
Romance Author
http://patbruening.bravehost.com/index.html
Affairs of the Gods, love you divine
Graphic Intentions, love you divine
One Fateful Night, Publish America
Always a Warrior, New Concepts Publishing
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Oct 17, 2008 - 09 17
Literary fiction.
----------The Prince by Machiavelli
52,112 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2008 - 16 20
Literary fiction unless I change my mind (which has happened.) I am writing last year's novel before it got preempted by a paranormal political thriller...
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Oct 19, 2008 - 08 23
Looks like I'm writing a fantasy romance with erotic scenes (I just never know how erotic it's going to get, mwahaha)
----------http://www.ameliajune.net
2005--Triple X (winner)::2006--Waking Kiara (winner)::2007--Maya's Web (winner)::2008--Seducing Seshat
3,021 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2008 - 07 18
I am thinking a western romance, set around tombstone maybe. Definitely in Az though...
----------http://ladyof-fire.livejournal.com/
http://www.myspace.com/dezyray_85
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Oct 29, 2008 - 10 08
I'm doing a medieval-esque fantasy, directed towards the YA bracket. I'm a little worried, because modern settings are so much easier to me, but whatever. Life is about challenges!
69,842 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2008 - 21 41
That PROBABLY shouldn't have made me snicker as much as it did. :)
----------NaNo '06- Darkness Falls In (winner!)
NaNo '07- 15th Avenue (winner!)
AugNo '08- Two Steps Back (46,059 words)
NaNo '08- The Moon and its Keeper
69,842 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2008 - 21 44
I am SO in the same boat with you here. Except for me "medieval" is more "3000 BC China". Ish. Which I know nothing of XD
Go, us! :D
----------NaNo '06- Darkness Falls In (winner!)
NaNo '07- 15th Avenue (winner!)
AugNo '08- Two Steps Back (46,059 words)
NaNo '08- The Moon and its Keeper