What do You Write?

[pjthefey]

I'm really all over the place with my writing. I write poetry, short stories, essays, and games.

This summer I have my first assignment to write a novella and I'm pretty excited about it. I have wanted to do something like this for a while but have always lacked time. Now that I will be graded on it, I can make time because it's part of my school work.

[Katherine]

Short fiction, although I have written 3 NaNoWriMo novels and finished 2 Script Frenzies. As for genre, a bit of everything, although my favourites are definitely horror and romance.

[Fuck Yeah Dion]

Short fiction. My "bio" says that I like to write about people and how they interact with each other. I'm also getting into creative nonfiction. I'm shopping a narrative/memoir/thing now about politics.

I write music and poetry too, but I don't take it too seriously.

[cassie]

I write poetry and supernatural novels, primarily. And no, I'm not published, but I hope to be in the future.

I can't write short stories to save my life, nor can I really write much without feeling the urge to put something sparkly or magic-y or just plain awesome in it. I love writing about the supernatural because I feel like you can write about anything... anything and everything goes when your characters don't necessarily play by the rules of the mundane.

[Fuck Yeah Dion]

I find playing by the rules of the mundane to be kind of fun, which is why I enjoy creative nonfiction so much. Real life never falls into a neat little narrative package, so it's kind of interesting to try and take the puzzle pieces of life and form a cohesive picture out of them.

[nodeerskulls]

I tend to write emotional short prose, and supernatural/psychological/fantasy/quirky/odd longer prose and short stories. I wish to dabble into a novel when summer holiday starts for good here, and I already have a few ideas.

[imaginarymelodies]

I write poetry, mainly. I also write fiction but I usually end up with fragments of stories that have some good ideas, but I can't continue them. I'd love to write a novel, I just don't have the ideas currently, and I'm suffering from major writer's block.

[tosney]

I write a lot of fiction. I can do short stories and flash fiction pretty well (based on reactions from others), but my ideas are getting more complex and the last piece I wrote was a novella length. Hopefully the one I'm writing now will be novel length.

I dabble in poetry and creative non-fiction, but my soul belongs to fiction.

As for genre - I tend to write in three basic categories.

1) Those emotional sorts of stories about relationships that aren't much more meaningful than a Jodi Picoult story (though I hope I have better endings :/ ).
2) Young adult fantasy type stories. I love it when these stories are really, really clever. Like Steven Moffat clever. My goal is to one day write a story that clever.
3) Experimental and embarrassingly literary stories with metaphors and themes and everything. These are my favorite and the ones I'm most proud of, and hopefully the ones I'll write for a living, but also the ones I'm most scared of showing others in fear of them making fun of me.

[Kori]

I'm majoring in Fiction, and hoping to get in an MFA program for it next year, so that's what I tend to focus on. Mostly short stories right now, for class. Once in a while though, I just have to explode into poetry.

For fiction, I am one for the fantastic. Urban fantasy mostly, though I'll write a bit of science fiction or horror if I feel up to it.