Writing Meme: "A"

[loaded_march]

repna asked for "A", which is, Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.


Really?  You couldn't pick a more difficult question?  Or one that most people don't already know the answer to?

Obviously, the answer is heroic action.  I've written enough of it, haven't I?  It's pretty much all that I write, I think.


Loaded March is full of it.  SLAPK is the embodiment of heroic action.  There probably didn't need to be any in Diamonds, but it's there.  It's the core of my RVBB -- can't do Western without it.  Every single one of my fics has some sort of heroic action to it.

Everyone's probably seen something of my real comfort zone -- the type of fic that I can write without thinking about it.  It's not effortless, because writing words takes time and effort, but it's the sort of story that is never difficult for me to write, and that's fiction very much like Dragon!fic.

At the very core, I'm a Swords and Sorcery writer, a genre of fantasy that embodies heroic adventure.  It doesn't matter what genre I end up writing in -- urban fantasy with a military bent (Loaded March), a high fantasy space opera (SLAPK), contemporary magical realism (DIamonds), a post Civil War Weird West (GG/HH)...  If you squint, you can see the Swords and Sorcery hiding in the background, trying to blend in with the wallpaper.