Genres. Who's doing what?

I think of my story as primarily being action-adventure, because main inspirations include the following:
* the Biggles books and stories of Captain W.E. Johns, which I enjoyed as a kid
* air-combat comic books like the Air Ace Picture Library series, which I also enjoyed as a kid
* 1930s air-adventure pulp-fiction magazine series like Dusty Ayres And His Battle Birds, which I have read about

There are some science-fiction components as well, like a near-future post-apocalypse setting and new technologies

I have used the shorthand "Mad Max 2 in airplanes" to describe my story.

As well, the term "airpunk" could be applied (http://tinyurl.com/yj8l8gb).

Killraven

2009 NaNo-efforts:
* Script Frenzy! - 'Last Flight To Mascot' (success)
* NaNoWriMo - 'Commander Cody And Her Lost Planet Airmen' (in progress)

Mine is an adventure-fantasy sort of thing, but with space ships too. It's all prophecies, and Chosen Ones, and swordfights, and such fun things! I've had the idea kicking around in my head for about 15 years now and I've tried to write it a few times, but it's never really worked until now. Thankfully, it's going really rather well this time round.

Writing a biography - just for something different.

Mine's a Sci-Fi based around the Battletech Universe, modified by events and characters/players from Netbattletech online Mechwarrior league. http://www.netbattletech.com. If anyone wants to see how it's going, linkage

Ray

NaNoprogress Tracker!
http://members.iinet.net.au/~maxtac/nano-progress09.xls
"May the muse be with you!"

Romance =D

Historical Romance to be specific. I love the regency period!

I've set mine as "Literary Fiction" at the moment as that is what I would like it to turn out to be, hehe, most likely it will deserve to be more in the general fiction category if anything though! ;)

2009: "Leopold"

http://www.youtube.com/theravenofpoe

Mine is listed as science fiction but it's heading towards horror (you can blame zombies for that!)

Mine's definitely Science Fiction - spaceships, AI, aliens, cliche's (wait, what?) - though I guess Space Fantasy might be a more accurate name for it, as the legitimacy of my science is questionable.

Romance for me :) I've been looking around actually, and I think fantasy slash sci-fi are the most popular genres on nanowrimo, or someone correct me if i'm wrong?

dare I say it. Chick Lit. Sort of like a novelisation of He's just not that into you. I had the idea about six years ago and
so I figure who cares if I write it and it's old hat to publishers. It will make a good Nanowrimo
Cheers
Clare

Fantasy. If you knew me, you would be surprised at anything else.

But it's a lot like a Simak novel. Not sure how that happened. There is magic, but it is rare (unlike most fantasy) books. I've also created a whole new species that live with humans and do many of the same things as humans, but aren't humans. (It sounds cliched, but they're cats.)

Wade, who is rather behind in word count at the moment...

Ditto Regency period romance. With a bit of humour thrown in. It's just so easy to write about!

I'm doing a YA vampire novel set in Sydney. Think Twilight meets Harry Potter (because it's a school for vampires, witches, zombies and werewolves) but with a much snarkier, sci-fi nerdy vampire for a narrator (who has a thing for classic rock music - none of that romantic classic piano playing crap for him, lol).

Is so much fun to write XD

--Samantha--

NaNo '06: Murder at Nurd Towers (15k)
NaNo '07: On Any Given Thursday (17k)
NaNo '08: Ice Chamber (13k)
NaNo '09: Rising Sun Grammar (27.5k - so far)

Fantasy for me - a school for witches, but is ruled by a The Trinity of races - Vampires, Changelings and Witches. Sort of a cross between "Vampire Academy" series by Richelle Mead and "Night World" series by L J Smith. Always taking the best of both worlds.

Katrina

2008: Gifted Gryffon (winner)
2009: Guardians of Light (tba)

"The world is full of different faces, all I need to do is figure out which ones would make the best characters."

Good old classic swords-and-sorcery fantasy, running rampant with cliches. Except it's set in tropical Queensland, and the 'prophecy' turns out to be a fake. They're the only concessions to originality that I'm making!

"A novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it."
- Neil Gaiman, Introduction to American Gods.

Mine was originally sci-fi but it concentrates more on adventure and war and complex interaction between characters and violence and horror and all this other stuff. Um. Mainstream? I dunno.

Literary Fiction. I have had this story in mind for some time and began a notebook a few months ago. A expect the book to run to about 80-90 000 words. I just finished a SF novel - 220 000 - words which I hope to publish next year, so I'm all Sci-Fied out right now. This nano is pretty will stuff. BTW, I use Scrivener for my writing app, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Good luck.

I can't wait to read your Regency works if you ever post them :). I was thinking about writing that genre for my next year's attempt.

This year is Fantasy, but not the Medieval swords and wizards type. My story is about a young girl whose village believes that everyone is called to by a god or goddess of their Hellenistic pantheon and this cheerful, optimistic girl finds out she's destined to become a necromancer for the not too exuberant God of the Dead. She thinks she was guided to travel to a merchant city where she's currently a fish out of water, but will soon find her own two feet and learn to reconcile her divine path with her new life in this foreign city.

It's fun to write because everything in my world is quite mundane and I draw on things from a variety of cultures like moon cake and shisha merchants, but they are all described from her point of view, which makes the world sound more fantastical than it really is.

I'm writing about my progress at http://pocketbook.helenaliu.com/

Romance, mostly, with a lot of fantasy revolving around it (rather than the other way around). Most of the fantasy is philosophical, religious and based heavily upon The Divine Comedy, though, with a huge gothic influence.

We live to be pulled unwillingly out of moderation.

Young adult fantasy for me. Last year's Nano was straight fantasy, the year before I wrote general fiction. Writing for kids is something new for me. It's nice to mix things up now and then.

Marina

My blog: Pecked by Ducks

I don't really know what boat to put my story in but I am guessing it will end up in YA.
however it involves elements of many other a genre's

fantasy, historical fiction, romance, ( that word for coming of age)
etc. etc. etc.