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

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's my thing, too: I've written both SF and fantasy, for both young people and adults, at short story and novel length. I've got outlines for a straight-up historical novel and for a couple of mysteries. I do essays. I've done nonfiction books and will do more if people will cut me checks for them. So it's not like this is how I'm living my life, and yet the answer came very clearly.