To write? To read? What differences do you find?
This post is brought to you by “I keep meaning to go back to writing light comedy fic but every time I start, some part of my brain bursts in like a goth grimdark Clippy and goes ‘you look like you’re trying to write a light comedy fanfic. Would you like some help adding horror to every line?’”
(Or at LEAST dark humour)
I tend to write a lot of stuff in genres I’d be wary to read, which feels like being a bad sport. But then if someone says “so today’s fic is a satire that’s more of an angry political vent” it’s only rational to assume it’ll be terrible. I like attempting to write in genres I haven’t tried before, and experimenting.
Not really sure what I like to read, genre-wise; suspect that once I like a genre, it means I get fussier about it, so then end up liking the available fic in that genre less… That phenomenon feels like it should have a catchy pun name…