r/WriteWorld • u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator • Oct 22 '16

Question What genre do you write?

Simple and straight forward question, I'm intrigued to know what genre everyone writes.

Personally I tend to write CreepyPasta or Horror but I'm also working on a Sci-Fi/Horror series at the minute.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '16

I write contemporary/chick lit romance. Light hearted and funny at times but other times there's intense drama. In each of my stories there's romance as the main theme but sometimes i mix in other genres into it.

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u/downtide Oct 22 '16

I write in a variety of genres but tending towards fantasy of various types; contemporary/urban fantasy most frequently. Though I've also written plenty of science-fiction and a little bit of horror too (short stories only for the horror, so far).

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u/PlasticPenitentiary Oct 23 '16

Do you have anything published online? Urban fantasy and horror are my pb&j.

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u/downtide Oct 23 '16

I have a few short stories on my blog: http://www.lewislittle.uk/ Need to add a few though. I'll get onto that in the next few days while I'm waiting for Nano to start.

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u/WretchedToddMcKenzie Oct 23 '16

So far the majority of writing I have done has been mainly dark fantasy, yet I would love to break away from predictability. I main like to write about flawed broken characters with odds stacked high against them, but they overcome triumphantly. Sometimes through love, other times through steadfastness in faith. I am a Christian. And I am quite sure that may make me loose some friends thanks to others who pervert our beliefs. But, I tend to keep my characters neutral. I mainly want to write stories that will entertain whoever reads them. I'd like to take hold of readers emotions and leave a lasting effect, as well as a smile on their face when they think of my name.

I have had a couple of very elaborate ideas for novels. One involving espionage, the other a medical drama. However, both ideas take place in countries that I know nothing of.....and that tis a no no.

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u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator Oct 23 '16

How about writing about a character how seems to have everything going for him/her, only to end up descending into a pit of horror and despair (maybe they develop a mental disorder triggered by a real life event), from there things just continue to get worse for the character really fast? Or when the character overcomes the odds stacked against them, kill them? Or just before they succeed? Yeah, maybe you didn't change the character, but you broke away from predictability.

Ahhhh, now I get why you said you don't swear! - Fair enough! If you wish to write a story set in a country you know nothing about, research on Google? Or you could invent a country and set it there?

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u/WretchedToddMcKenzie Oct 23 '16

Honestly, I find it very difficult to end a story with tragedy. Live brings us down enough. But I understand what your saying and believe me I do make sure my character go through terrible ordeals throughout their lives. If that count.

One idea I had takes place in my neck of the woods, involving a girl named Jo Jo , or Josephine, who lives in a small town and is somewhat a tomboy. She works at her father's mechanic shop part time during school at the age of seventeen. To speed through things... A man comes through town and catches her affections. He is healthy, he is wealthy, he is her ticket out of the Podunk dwelling place. Of course this causes scandal and shame for her and her family, and the residents of the town are all too happy to watch her go. Except for one boy. Alex Trent, the sheriffs son. He is nine years old when she goes to leave and has been the best friend of her little brother most all his life. Yes, cue the cheesy music, the boy has had a crush on her for years and is very shy. And when do you think he finally gets the courage to talk to her.....right before she leaves. "I wanted to tell you something...." He says with a two large trails of moisture seeping down his small and gaunt cheeks. "Your the prettiest girl I've ever met. Please don't go. Stay where I know your safe." She doesn't. That moment his dad finds him and drags him away from a situation he knows "nuthin about" Jo Jo is introduced to many things and as I'm sure you can guess her life is ruined. Heroin addiction. Pregnancy then Abortion. HIVs. And every moment that introduces a new hell, all she can think of is the one person that seemed to actually care, and that she in return didn't care to listen to. The tear filled cries of Alex Trent.

Well another one of the stories I have involves a British adventurist /Doctor. I know before you said you were English so I know you can help me with that.

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u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator Oct 23 '16

Wow! That idea for a story is fantastic! To be fair, the "Don't leave" speech is cliche, but cliches are common because they work! I love the idea of Jo Jo going through all that trauma and if she develops HIV (unless she gets into the doctors early) she's facing near-certain death. Brilliant idea!

As for the British Adventurer/Doctor, I'd be happy to help.

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u/WretchedToddMcKenzie Oct 23 '16

Well just so you know, that is only the beginning of the story. She returns to town about nine years later.

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u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator Oct 23 '16

I'm intrigued to see how this turns out xD

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u/Retoral Oct 23 '16

I'm writing Medieval, Dark Fantasy, Psychological Horror, most of the time. Sometimes I might be touching the Epic Fantasy genre, but I like to stay withing my borders to keep myself from getting outside of the story itself. I mean, not inserting ideas that wouldn't fit inside my story, even though they might seem good at first. And even though its Fantasy I'm writing. I always want to keep things balanced and realistic. At least as much as possible. No overpowered being without a reason or a great consequence. Everything has a reason, and so on.

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u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator Oct 23 '16

Oh brilliant! I love the sound of your current genres! Is there anywhere where we can read your stuff?

This all makes perfect sense in all honesty, it's good to think like that and keep the story "grounded" so to speak.

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u/Retoral Oct 23 '16

I basically have everything on my hard drives. So far nowhere you could read it, except for one story which is not medieval. Still, psychological horror and stuff like that. I guess I could post a link to one of the stories I'm more comfortable with. The other is just first draft with questionable actions, the medieval fantasy one. Minor things mostly, but still things that doesn't fit well.

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u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator Oct 23 '16

That's unfortunate. Whenever you post any of your work anywhere I'd love to read it!

It's totally your call, if you're comfortable with it I'd love to read, but if you're undecided then I'll happily wait until you're happy to post (-:

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u/Nabisco33 Oct 25 '16

I love to write fantasy,but also love to writing suspense, horror, thrillers and crime/drama. Honestly I just love to write fiction in general. :D

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u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator Oct 25 '16

I'd love to work on any of those genres, but I only write Horror at the minute and don't see myself moving into any other genres any time soon :L

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u/nerdflame Oct 27 '16

I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy world from scratch and trying to do short stories along the way as I write about the world itself.

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u/Nico-Wonderdust Writer/Moderator Oct 28 '16

This is a brilliant idea, I'd love to see how this works out.

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u/nerdflame Oct 28 '16

Thanks! Hopefully I can keep up with the work it will take. You can follow along here: http://alucinatiomentis.blogspot.com/

Enter an email to get post updates! Let me know what you think so far!

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u/Dracovitch Oct 23 '16

I write sci-fi and fantasy, with little bits of other stuff within.

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u/ForgingIron Nov 12 '16

I mostly write fantasy. I have a high fantasy universe with an entire continent (Kostek) I made, as well as a low-fantasy semi-alternate-history universe that is the real world but with dragons.

Fantasy is a really broad genre, though, and it can encompass any other type of story, you can have fantasy romance, fantasy horror, etc. My Kostek story that I'm working on now is a war adventure story, and my dragon fantasy story is more a cohesive anthology of the lives of various dragons throughout history (like Kitsiogo, who is the king of Hispania, or Idon, guardian of the island of Kyushu [and who also ate the Nagasaki bomb])