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Why am I not writing SciFi/Fantasy?
SuperflyMD:
I am an avid Fiction reader. Easily 95% of what I read is SciFi and Fantasy. So why, when I sit down at the keyboard to write my first fiction in 20 years, does the output seem to be set completely in the muggle realm?
For the time being, I'm just going where the story leads me, but I am completely taken aback.
LizW65:
Huh--that could be me. Much of what I read has some paranormal element, yet all of my writing so far is in the mystery/thriller genre. I guess it just comes down to the stories I want to tell.
SuperflyMD:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on January 02, 2011, 04:34:58 PM ---Huh--that could be me. Much of what I read has some paranormal element, yet all of my writing so far is in the mystery/thriller genre. I guess it just comes down to the stories I want to tell.
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I wish my decision was that conscious.
I don't really consider myself a discovery writer. I have an electronic stack of index cards in Scrivener ready to follow The Butcher Method of Plot Design (hehe), but here I am sitting in front of my laptop letting my fingers do the walking without a clue where they are taking me.
Snowleopard:
Let 'em walk - you can always corral them later. ;D
Besides I suspect that there's some story in your subconscious that wants out - so best be letting it out.
RobJN:
Been there, doing that.
I read tons of fantasy fiction and a bit of sci fi. I try very hard to write the same type of material, because I like those types of stories and have my own I want to tell.
... so why is it that my best material is contemporary and (only slightly) magical-contemporary...?
My wife tells me it's because I'm boxed in by the "rules" of all the material that I've read and absorbed over the years, and the contemporary stuff I've written isn't penned in (pardon the pun) by such boundaries.
I think she's on to something... which is why I don't read much contemporary fiction.
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