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Nicole622
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Posted: 19 May 2019 at 9:48am |
The open genre was a nice change this round, and I’m wondering what people went with and why? I chose fantasy because that’s what I usually write and I’ve been itching for a chance to do it in this competition. But I haven’t seen any other fantasy titles/synopsis postings yet. So what did y’all end up doing?
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roccapia
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il think I'd have to categorize mine as just general or literary, although there are some supernatural elements to it.
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Nicole622
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Isn’t it interesting that, when there is no genre requirement, you just don’t think about genre? Writing with a specific genre requirement in mind was a totally new experience for me in this comp. I mean I did write fantasy this round but that’s more of a default for me than a conscious choice haha
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Taj
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I had decided before the prompt that I would write sci-fi, drama or romance. That’s where I’ve spent my life reading, so it’s also a comfort zone for writing. When I got the prompts I ended up writing kind of a post apocalyptic love story.
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Angara
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I like to think of my story as a sci-fi fairy tale. I think the fact that I got sci-fi for my genre during the first round really set the tone for the rest of the competition for me, and no matter which genre I got, I kept adding sci-fi elements here and there. It's funny; I came into the competition thinking that I was NOT capable of writing sci-fi. It just wasn't my comfort zone, and I swore up and down that this round I would do historical fiction or something with a dash of magical realism...but here I am, with a sci-fi fairy tale.
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Briana Una
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I wrote a gothic, even though it’s not one of our genre options, because it’s the genre I’m studying for my MFA. I spent this past semester reading and analyzing like 15 of them, and the prompts certainly lent themselves to one, so I thought it would be a nice capstone!
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OKCryptid
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I went in wanting to write horror, but it turned out to be a... drama? I think? Weirdest thing. Had this cool spooky idea, and then more personal stuff went into the story than I was ready for and it just completely derailed and changed shape. I'm exhausted. Looking forward to reading others' work, but not my own feedback.
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Heartstart
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Mine's probably 'general' with some traces of 'horror' thrown in the mix.
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thaliahalloran
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I did a fairy tale since I was never assigned one and was itching to try. My first two were horror and ghost story, which I was fairly new to, so this was a bit more my speed and I thought it lent itself to an interesting/unusual interpretation of the prompts.
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