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11-08-2005, 08:06 PM
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Genre?
What genre are you writing in? It would be interesting to know which genre would come in first in a list of everyone doing this. My guess would be fantasy. Mine is mystery. Anyone? Faergen
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11-08-2005, 08:44 PM
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Mine is a mixture of comedy, sci-fi, and fantasy.
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11-08-2005, 10:15 PM
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Location: Great White North
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On the Nano site, they have it listed.
1. Fantasy-Word Count-35588369
2. Other-Word Count-29320634
3. Literary Fiction-Word Count-23911911
4. Science Fiction-Word Count-14447119
At first, mine started being Other, but I now believe it would be more Fantasy than anything else. It figures--I normally write Fantasy and Horror.
Last edited by Selorian : 11-08-2005 at 10:22 PM.
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11-08-2005, 10:37 PM
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I put mine as science fiction because that's probably the main genre.
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11-09-2005, 10:06 AM
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I'll call it science fiction masquerading as fantansy.
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11-09-2005, 11:48 AM
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I would say mine is comedy, chick lit.
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11-09-2005, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: England
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Sci-Fi
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11-09-2005, 06:10 PM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Fantasy/Gay Erotica/Realistic Fiction
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11-09-2005, 11:55 PM
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Location: Juneau, Alaska
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Literary fiction... Maybe. It has some fantastical elements, but I'm drawing off of mythology and magic is definitely not the focus of it. The focus is my main character and how she goes from being an Achilles-like character to someone a little more humble, more hesistant to kill, and much wiser.
There's also a lot of stuff dealing with their gods and the strangely dressed pale men's god.
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11-10-2005, 12:49 AM
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Ditto on the Literary Fiction.
Possibly Historical Fiction--in a round about way.
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11-10-2005, 04:45 PM
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I'll call it "Other" because I don't think it fits anywhere else.
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11-10-2005, 09:18 PM
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historical fiction
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11-10-2005, 10:31 PM
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a bit off topic, but what is literay fiction?
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11-10-2005, 10:34 PM
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pliable
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Literary fiction is supposedly "genre-less" fiction, although it really is its own genre (pretentious writers like to differentiate between literary and genre fiction). Basically, literary fiction focuses on characters and their development over the plot.
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11-25-2005, 03:50 PM
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Other, 'cause this little something fits nowhere except for my wandering mind. There's this fantasy thing going on, with the alternative history and whatnot, and the absence of the human race...We're boring, that's all.
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