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

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Industrial Fantasy novels. Partly because most of my novel ideas can be shoehorned into that if necessary (even quite a few of the SF ones, actually), and partly because very few others would choose it. I'm not sure I believe in a real distinction between Adult and YA.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Silly Timprov. YA novels are 40-90K, and adult novels are 80K+. So okay, there's a 10K overlap, but....