Intermission - Fantasy Geek

[kriadydragon]

I've come to the conclusion that I really am more fantasy than sci-fi. Which is ironic seeing as how my original fics started out as mostly science-fiction, and fantasy I wouldn't go anywhere. Once I got into fantasy the semi-opposite happened. I was thinking up less sci-fi and more fantasy. And even my sci-fi stuff has a wee smidgen of fantasy... if you squint and tilt your head just so.

Out of the sci-fi stories I've thought up there are only five that I really, really like - Black Dragon being one of them. I'm not even going to try and count how many fantasy stories I have.

But not in terms of writing, I love both equally.

Anyways, this has nothing to do with anything. Just me pondering out loud. Back to writing the slave fic.

Comments

[bratfarrar]

I've definitely found the same thing - I don't think any of the stories I've completed are really sci-fi. Fantasy, on the other hand - well, you've seen my stuff.

I think part of it might be that I find it harder to create sci-fi worlds that are internally consistent. Or something. I'm not sure, really, but I'm also not reading as much sci-fi as I used to. (Unless you count sga fanfic, which I don't, since most of them don't really explore that side of the world they're playing in.)

Funny how tastes change, isn't it?

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Initially I had plans on writing young adult mysteries. Except they always turned sci-fi on me ;)

My favorite sci-fi stuff has always been movies and TV shows. I've tried reading sci-fi books but they were always so dang boring, too hung up on being philosophical and making absolutely no freakin sense. I've read a couple of good Sci-fi books but the pickings are rather slim for me. As for writing it, sci-fi is sci-fi because it deals with science, and I've never been good at science. I love space adventures but writing about the technology scares me.

But, dang it, I still love it enough to write it anyways.