What would you write about?

[holy king]

teen romance novels infused with supernatural elements

 

[Lillefix]

teen romance novels infused with supernatural elements

If you just want to make money...

 

[IglooDame]

Is porn a genre?

Depends on whether it is good porn or bad porn.

 

[Kyriakos]

It looks like science fiction is really the popular choice up to now. I always thought that it was something very few people could write. Does it fall into more than one categories of scientific accuracy/detail?

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

I think you can divide science fiction into two broad categories:

Science fiction, whose primary theme is science and technology itself and/or people's interaction with it (like Asimov's I, Robot); and
Science fiction, in which technology is more of a supporting theme or setting (Star Wars, for example).

 

[Lillefix]

First of all there is a difference between could and would.

Of course, not every one can be Clark, Niven or Asimov with great attention to details and realism. In much Sci-fi, very often space operas(Hamilton, Reynolds etc.), there really is no need to go on to the technical, you just need a few good ideas. I'm not saying it would automatically be good sci-fi, but I mean that you don't have to be a phycisist to make good sci-fi(it can also be a problem that science gets in the way of interesting characters).

 

[scherbchen]

general fiction with a hefty push towards fantasy/sci fi as far as settings go. think Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland) meets Neil Gaiman. now if I could pull it off.....

 

[scherbchen]

teen romance novels infused with supernatural elements

I hear werewolves are the new vampires... try to cram in robots and an overhyped babe and you'll make millions. don't forget us back here in cfc country when you get grapes fed to you in your castle made out of pury gold and ivory.

 

[Mise]

General fiction, gritty and "real", in the tradition of Dostoyevski's The Double, about a middle-class office worker who slowly goes insane. Or rather, he starts off insane, but the reader (and the protagonist) slowly realise it through a serious of sexier and sexier events. (Because, of course, nothing sexy ever happens to this middle-class office worker!)

 

[Quackers]

Gritty sexy drama in the Havana.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Get out.


For me, it's chiefly a matter of taste. I'll read/watch material in that genre and think, "I'd like to make something like that", and so I do.

I beg your pardon? Why did you tell me to "get out"?

It looks like science fiction is really the popular choice up to now. I always thought that it was something very few people could write. Does it fall into more than one categories of scientific accuracy/detail?

There are many subgenres of science fiction. It would be more accurate to say that very few people can write hard science fiction, combining good science with a good story.

 

[str8_probe23]

A bit of general fiction with a bit of horror and suspense.. generally because the plot will ramble as much as my mind does when pen hits paper!

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

I beg your pardon? Why did you tell me to "get out"?

I cannot believe that anyone I know could possibly aspire to such genius. Ergo, you must be attempting to deliberately deceive me, and I must therefore insist you vacate my presence.

Spoiler :

Seriously, which ones?

 

[Murky]

I have written some fantasy and sci-fi short stories.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I cannot believe that anyone I know could possibly aspire to such genius. Ergo, you must be attempting to deliberately deceive me, and I must therefore insist you vacate my presence.

Spoiler :

Seriously, which ones?

I didn't actually write any of the webcomics themselves. But I was given a cameo in one of the one-shot panels some years back. That's something Noah did sometimes - put his friends in the comics as a "guest star" of sorts. The person with the longest run as such a guest star was Crazy Al, who was part of the LARP storyline.

When I said I did original FK material, I meant in various forum role-playing scenarios and some other projects to which Noah has given his blessing (ie. "Violet Tendencies: Confessions of a Dangerously Fuzzy Mind").

Actually, there will be some Fuzzy Knight content appearing in Dragonloft forum in the next few days, as that forum holds its annual Midwinter party...

 

[Dachs]

I suck at writing fiction even more than I suck at writing nonfiction.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Historical fiction for me with fantasy elements -- like a story in a historical setting detached from actual history.

 

[Kyriakos]

I suck at writing fiction even more than I suck at writing nonfiction.

That's not true I read part of your byzantine civil war post, and the other about the diadochi. They were not boring, and i ussually don't read history articles

 

[Souron]

I'd write fantasy. It allows me to explore different physics.

But I think I'd prefer writing for game development to writing a book.

Writing for a show like The Twilight Zone would also be cool.

 

[azzaman333]

For your works, you can put under either fantasy or horror.

Horror it is.