Question

[mrissa]

For non-writers: if someone magically forced you to write something, what would it be and why? Length/category/genre/audience/etc.

For writers: if you could only work in one length/category/genre/etc. ever again, which would it be and why?

Does anybody feel that they aren't covered in either of those two categories, writers and non-writers? If so, can you explain why?

Myself, I think if I had to stick with one thing, it'd probably be YA fantasy novels. I'm glad I don't have to, but if I did....

I'd like to think that whatever I'm working on now will be the best thing I've written to date. But sometimes it's hard to compare adult SF short stories to YA children's novels to adult fantasy trilogies in that regard. Besides, I'm opposed to total orderings in general. We all know that by now, right? Mrissas Don't Like Total Orderings. Rule of life.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Cyberpunk! I'd love to be a cyberpunk writer, born around the time that cyberpunk writer was the thing to be. Not that the latter's not-happeningness would be a problem for me, if the former were the case.

Barring that, YA.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Or, I suppose, a cyberpunk YA writer?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This seems reasonable to me, and I'm not sure why you don't just do it. Lyda Morehouse went to a WorldCon panel where Gibson pronounced cyberpunk dead, the year her first book came out. She's sold all three sequels as well. I guess I don't see the point of doing something when it's The Thing to do.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I would (and will) just do it if I had any inclination beyond a vague "Gee, I'd like to do that someday." I'm not writing it off so much as storing it up.