If you were a type of writer...

[jobycom]

Poll question: If you were a type of writer...

What type of writer would you be? Not what type of writing you'd like to do, but what kind of writing seems the most like you really are?

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. journalism

I don't like writing fiction. I don't think there's much originality left out there for me to scrounge up.

[jobycom]

10. There isn't in journalism, either. nt.

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[theorist]

2. Literary.

I'm more interested in the style of Pynchon. (I don't think it's pretentious; it's art!)

[alexwcovington]

3. Asimov's later stuff was crap

He elevated psychology to the level of a real science...

[SOteric]

4. Given the frequent tone of this place,

I think you should have made an option for 'erotica.'

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. LOL! Yes! Especially now that they can't write their erotica here

they should be making "novels" and short stories.

[jobycom]

12. Well, given my parameters

That I'm looking for the type of writer people most resemble, not what they would most like to write, I don't think erotica would fit. Not many erotics, just a lot of fantasies, knowwhatImean?

[La_Serpiente]

5. Journalism/Jurrasic Park type

I also like to add a lot of history into my writing.

[onebigbadwulf]

6. I will be the next Michael C

or Chuck Palahniuk.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Where's the social philosophy/theological/political option?

[sasquatch]

8. Sci Fi/Horror/Social

[DivinBreuvage]

9. Herman Melville, but without the talent

Spending hours pouring my heart out writing crap that nobody reads.

Françoise

[Tredge]

20. Dare to dream

Spending hours pouring my heart out writing crap that nobody reads.

That describes Melville in his own lifetime, so reach for that star!

[Wickerman]

11. Serial action/adventure military novelist

Nah, not me. I have a friend who writes this crap. He is on his fourth book in a series. Has a good publisher, makes a living. Hates it. Really feels constricted - just as his fan base is growing. Every dream has its own trap.

[jobycom]

13. Wasn't asking what type of writing people wanted to do, but

I once wrote a story about a man who wrote serial fiction and was so upset with it that his main character began to rebel against him as he wrote his next novel.

So totally irrelevant, eh? Oh well.

[Wickerman]

14. tangents are fun

so, who won? The novel or the character?

[jobycom]

16. Well....

The writer keeps killing the female leads of his series, using their deaths as the inspiration for the peace-loving hero to go one a bloody rampage. She takes over his computer one evening, and every time he writes her death scene, she changes it to a love scene. Eventually he realizes that the different female leads are all the same character, one that he had seen in a film as a young man. He had fallen in love with her, and the writers had killed her at the end, gratuitously. He was so angry he wrote his first novel, in which he avenged her death. After that, he began writing sequels, falling into a formula, and becoming miserable with himself and his writing. At the end he begins to write romances, and falls in love with his character again, with just a hint of insanity.

It's my favorite work, but no one else fully appreciates it. And yes, it was based on a gratuitously murdered Virginia Madsen character in a really bad USA Network film that pissed me off.

[Wickerman]

21. Kind of a psych sci-fi

sounds cool. Ever get anything published?

[politicat]

15. Funny enough.... I am a fantasy writer....

3 novels, 2 under consideration, one in revision.

But I write more Tolkien than Brooks, more Lord Dunsany than Eddings.

I also write whatever else catches my fancy.

Anyone interested in being a first reader?

Politicat

[Sting]

17. I'm a science/adventure/action/mystery guy.

:D

[Interrobang]

18. I am a writer...

I tend to write SF/F/H, but I have my lapses into plain old "mainstream" fiction every now and then. I want to be a bestseller writer because the mid-list is vanishing. My new novel idea is definitely *not* SF/F or H. :)

[populistmom]

19. How about stuff that no one reads?

I write stuff all the time poems, erotica, personal rants, but it is extremely rare that I will let anyone read what I write. Even when writing to other people, I write things that I intend to send, then don't, but keep it on file. I suppose I could write one seriously deranged book someday.

[Richardo]

22. Carl Hiaasen

Funny, well-crafted, with a point.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

23. Only time I've ever agreed with George Will...

...was when he said that someday he'd like to write a novel half as good as "Middlemarch"