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11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
I actually went and looked up Genre on Fanlore in the course of trying to decide what it meant, but Fanlore just affirms my intuition that this question could be asking two different things, so I will answer both.
1) Genre in the sense of type of pairing (or lack thereof): Slash. I am a slasher. This is not borne out as unequivocally in my writing as it is in my sense of fannish identity--only just over half of my stories, numerically, are labeled as M/M on the AO3. (Although they represent a disproportionately larger word count, as my major epics tend to be slash, wholly or in part.) I actually write a startling amount of gen, and I'm slowly learning to embrace pairings with (gasp!) ladies in them.
But mostly I write slash and prefer slash.
2) Genre in the sense of tone or content of story aside from pairing: Angst. Aaaaaaaaangst. Also suffering. Structurally speaking I like stories where the hurt is comforted and preferably redeemed by some sort of payoff and happy ending and cessation of suffering. But you can't have anything without the suffering; it's all suffering, you see.
This has tended to give me a skewed perception of what I am actually writing when I am writing it--most infamously when I wrote a Due South story (an AU of sorts off of "Good for the Soul") where Fraser spends nearly the entire story in a hospital bed, having been beaten nearly to death. I was convinced the entire time I was writing it that it was fluff.
So: angst. Angst and ONE TIME, JUST ONE SINGLE TIME, a dead puppy.
( All 30 questions under the cut. )
I actually went and looked up Genre on Fanlore in the course of trying to decide what it meant, but Fanlore just affirms my intuition that this question could be asking two different things, so I will answer both.
1) Genre in the sense of type of pairing (or lack thereof): Slash. I am a slasher. This is not borne out as unequivocally in my writing as it is in my sense of fannish identity--only just over half of my stories, numerically, are labeled as M/M on the AO3. (Although they represent a disproportionately larger word count, as my major epics tend to be slash, wholly or in part.) I actually write a startling amount of gen, and I'm slowly learning to embrace pairings with (gasp!) ladies in them.
But mostly I write slash and prefer slash.
2) Genre in the sense of tone or content of story aside from pairing: Angst. Aaaaaaaaangst. Also suffering. Structurally speaking I like stories where the hurt is comforted and preferably redeemed by some sort of payoff and happy ending and cessation of suffering. But you can't have anything without the suffering; it's all suffering, you see.
This has tended to give me a skewed perception of what I am actually writing when I am writing it--most infamously when I wrote a Due South story (an AU of sorts off of "Good for the Soul") where Fraser spends nearly the entire story in a hospital bed, having been beaten nearly to death. I was convinced the entire time I was writing it that it was fluff.
So: angst. Angst and ONE TIME, JUST ONE SINGLE TIME, a dead puppy.
( All 30 questions under the cut. )