What genre do you write in?

@ashlyvye I like basically anything, but I usually write in either sci-fi or fantasy (or some sub genre of speculative fiction.)

If I write fantasy, magic may exist, but it’s not usually the focal point of the story and it doesn’t usually feel too much like magic. Like, in Narnia, magic appears often, but somehow it doesn’t feel like magic; it feels more like that’s just the way their world is. Or, in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy, Allomancy is technically a “magic system” in his fantasy world, but to me it definitely does not feel like magic. It’s a biological ability to burn metal that is inherited by members of the nobility. And no spells. I don’t like spells (sorry Gandalf!)

Oh, and I try to keep sci-fi technologies relatively realistic.

And I also sometimes do realistic fiction, just not as much.

And whatever else I feel like writing. 😉

@ashlyvye  Cool topic! I have like 4 different WIP/ideas that I plan on writing, here are their genres:

My one WIP is kind-of Realistic Science Fantasy like you described, but set in the future!

My second WIP is historical fiction and romance.

I also have a fantasy world that I’m working on.

I love to write nonfiction!

@ashlyvye What a cool topic! I write mostly fantasy, though I’ve begun to dabble in science fiction and realistic fiction. They don’t come as naturally to me though 😛

@supermonkey42 I agree. In my worlds, there’s “magic” in the sense that powers may exist, other creatures that I made up exist, and there are different races that I made up. But it’s always the way the world works, like the science of that world.

I’ve always wanted to try dystopian, satire, and historical fiction. Someday… *looks wistfully into the distance* *sighs* So many things to write, so little time.

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@ashlyvye It’s the opposite of a utopia, basically. Utopia is the perfect world, dystopia is the awful world. I have not read much dystopia, though, so I’m not very familiar with how it usually plays out in fiction.

@ashlyvye @supermonkey42 Fantasy without magic isn’t too unusual, actually.  The original fantasy work, Pilgrim’s Progress doesn’t use magic; Chuck Black, who is one of the most well known new Christian fantasy authors, doesn’t use magic at all in any of his books; Frank Peretti didn’t use it in the Cooper Kids series; Gilbert Morris didn’t use it in any but the last book of his Seven Sleepers series… 😀  So it’s certainly possible!

As for what genres I write: My full books are all contemporary realistic or semi-realistic fiction, some with a little his-fic thrown in, (Time travel, or ancestor’s diary kind of thing 🙂 ) and my short stories are almost exclusively historical fiction.  The novel I am working on right now is a contemporary realistic western, so that’s another genre I’m trying out which fits into the genres I usually write, but is a little different.

It is a well-known fact around here that I don’t write fantasy, and it is believed that I avoid it with diligence, but that is not completely true. 🙂  The first, ten-page “books” I wrote as a ten-year-old included invisible walls, giants, and flying saucers (actually saucer, not alien space ship.  This was a plate that they rode on for some reason. 😀 )  So I have actually written fantasy in the past, though not with magic.  Don’t faint, anybody!

@rochellaine *faints*

Hmm, that’s interesting about Pilgrim’s Progress. Is something like Beowulf considered pre-fantay if it came hundreds of years before Pilgrim’s Progress?

@ashlyvye I write fantasy, primarily, but currently I’m working on something which is more like sci-fi/ dystopian. Realistic science fantasy sounds really cool :D. The Reckoners is like that in some ways, although it’s more superhero.