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cinematicnomad · 2 years

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✨THIS OR THAT✨

tagged by @finalgirllaurie 🥰

slow burn or love at first sight // fake dating or secret dating // enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers // oh no there's only one bed or long-distance correspondence // hurt-comfort or amnesia // fantasy au or modern au // mutual pining or domestic bliss // smut or fluff // reincarnation or character death // canon compliant or fix-it // one-shot or multi-chapter // kid fic or road trip fic // arranged marriage or accidental marriage // high school romance or middle aged romance // time travel or isolated together // neighbors or roommates // sci-fi au or magic au // body swap or gender bend // angst or crack // apocalyptic or mundane

tagging: @crazyassmurdererwall, @tattooedsiren, @woodchoc-magnum, @machtaholic, @tripleaxeldiaz, @buttercupbuck, @tawaifeddiediaz, @catdadeddie, and anyone else

#tagged in #i love canon compliant AND fix-it fics #and also i love fix-it fics that are canon compliant #obviously sometimes you can't have both but sometimes you can!#anyway i couldn't pick just one #also some of these answers were just 'eh i guess??' bc i don't really read either #(sci-fi au vs magic au i'm looking at you)#also time travel fics have to be GOOD and those are v hard to find actually #there are so many more BAD time travel fics in fandom than good ones

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performativezippers · 4 months

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As a non writer I’m curious about something. Do you decide to write a specific genre and then work an idea into the genre or do you write the idea/story you want and then look to decide which genre it is? I guess I’m curious if the story or genre comes first?

Great question!

For fic: I write whatever the fuck I want and don't worry about it! I mostly write things that end happily because that's what makes me happy, but as long as I tag things appropriately (AU, platonic, IN SPACE, whatever), I don't let any of that bother me. Fic is so fun because it can so easily slide between genres. And most fic is romance AND something else; romance and crime/mystery, romance and scifi, romance and fantasy, or simply contemporary romance. There's a big thing in the publishing world right now where people are like "omg, ROMANTASY, aka fantasy with a primary romance, HOW THRILLING" and I'm like...dude...this not new! Welcome! Have you heard of a lil fandom by the name of XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS??? Do not cite the Deep Magic to me Witch. I was there when it was written.

For novels that you're trying to get published: I had to learn what book genres were! I queried my first novel—which is when you send it out to agents like a job application, with a cover letter and writing sample, and hope they want to represent you, aka help you sell it—being like THIS HAS NO GENRE and it turns out the genre was romcom with speculative elements. Aka low key romantasy, lol. Anyway, that book was Revelations and it didn't sell, I think primarily because the genre conventions were not met and it was confusing. It worked great as a fic, but required several big overhauls and ground-up rewrites to get it to place where it meets genre expectations and is maybe sell-able.

Usually the idea that comes to me is clear what genre it is, now that I know what they are. I primarily write romcoms, some speculative and some not, and so the ideas that percolate for me most are romcoms. However, my agent said recently a new idea I have might be more on the line of romcom and women's fiction* which surprised me. But that's fine! It doesn't change the book I write; it might change how we talk about it in the pitch process and, if it gets sold, how the marketing team frames it. But that won't change the story structure from a drafting perspective, I don't think.

Some genres are very close to each other (upmarket vs. book club fiction vs. women's fiction), while others are quite distinct (if you want it set in space, that's probably going to be sci fi). I think the main questions are:

(a) Setting: Is it on a space ship? (sci-fi) Are there dragons? (fantasy) Can people use magic? (fantasy or speculative) Is it in our world, in our time? (contemporary) In our world but in 1250? (historical)

(b) Character motivations (what do they NEED): To repopulate their planet? Save their mother from the evil magician? Fall in love? Save her bookstore from capitalism?

(c) Obstacle (why don't they have it ALREADY): If the obstacle is primarily internal, like she can't fall in love because she hates herself, then we're looking at a straight romance or literary fiction. If the obstacle is world-building related, like the spaceship is broken or the magician is too powerful, that's going to be firmly sci-fi or fantasy or whatever.

There should always be at least 2 obstacles: one internal and one external, but you should know which one is paramount, or which would win in an epic battle. And that will help you figure out if you're writing, say, romance with speculative elements (soulmates) or fantasy with a strong romantic element (fourth wing, i think, i haven't read it because it seems bad). Whichever you list first is your primary genre, aka which section of the bookstore it'll be in. Are you shelving this in fantasy (fourth wing) or romance (Revelations) or "fiction," and then the rest gets more specific from there.

*also, just like, FUCK the name "women's fiction." Men's fiction is called "fiction."

#writing advice #ask zipps #book genres #publishing

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baratrongirl · 1 year

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Fanfiction Trope Meme

Stolen from @pigeontheoneandonly, who I don't know at all. Saw it in their blog and went "I like these questions". Rules: copy/past and bold your fic preferences and tag someone to do the same. I don't ever explicitly tag people because I don't want anyone to feel put on the spot when they could be having a bad week/month/year. I'm interested in all my friends' answers, so answer the questions if you want to.

slow burn or love at first sight. (Good question. I tend to think that love at first sight is unrealistic, because you only know what someone looks like, not who they really are. So I suppose I prefer slow burn where the affection grows as the people get to know each other.)

fake dating or secret dating. (Ugh, I like both! Though secret dating wins with Klapollo - dating in secret because Klavier's a rock star and they don't want the tabloid hassle.)

enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers. (This is how my relationships have worked in real life. We've always been friends first - at least for the relationships that have actually LASTED.)

oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance with correspondence. (Ack! I can't decide! *squishes Klapollo into one bed* vs LDR with Apollo in Khura'in and Klavier in Los Angeles/Tokyo?)

hurt/comfort or amnesia. (HURT/COMFORT. Finally, an easy one!)

fantasy au or modern au. (This one depends on the original setting. If it's a fantasy setting, a modern AU. If it's a modern setting, then a fantasy AU!)

mutual pining or domestic bliss. (Get it together, silly boys! Of course, I'm talking about Klapollo again. With some of my other ships, I prefer them to simply communicate and sort their relationship out.)

smut or fluff. (I like both BUT if we are simply talking about tropes in the absence of plot, I prefer Porn Without Plot to Fluff Without Plot. Fluff Without Plot leaves me feeling unfulfilled, like I ate candy floss when I wanted a meal. Fluff WITH Plot is fantastic, and I've written quite a few Teen-rated fics myself. Smut is definitely not essential for a good story.)

canon complaint or fix-it fic. (Fix-it!!)

alternate universe or future fic. (AUs are fascinating.)

one-shot or multi-chapter. (Depends on the story, of course. If it's high-quality, I can easily read 150k of fic in a night. What is this "bedtime" thing you speak of?)

kid fic or roadtrip fic. (I am not really a fan of either, but I LOATHE kid fic. Fan-created OC children make me break out in metaphorical hives. Though - I say that, and I would still absolutely love to read a story where Trucy (aged 25+) offers to be the surrogate for Klavier and Apollo, since she is Apollo's sister and has the most similar genetic makeup to him. I guess I'm more interested in the negotiations (will they accept it? Does Klavier even WANT children which are genetically his considering how Kristoph turned out?) than the actual part where a baby exists.)

reincarnation or character death. (NEVER character death, I hate it - and it's an actual squick to the point of being triggering with my main ship. Whereas reincarnation, finding each other again and again in different worlds over time - OMG I love.)

arranged marriage or accidental marriage. (Especially if accompanied by queer lawyers with legal shenanigans.)

high school romance or middle-aged romance. (Middle-aged fans demand middle-aged Blorbos! 35 is not "old", you teenage Narumitsu fans.)

time travel or isolated together. (Can't decide. As long as it's not a tragedy where they're separated by time, or where one is already a ghost while the other is alive, I don't much mind.)

neighbors or roommates. (No actual preference.)

sci-fi au or magic au. (Slight preference for magic, but only because SF is hard to write well.)

body swap or genderbend. (No preference, though I should perhaps observe that F/F Klapollo are barely any different to M/M Klapollo unless you're writing smut. Body swap, however, is hilarious because you have Mr Tall, Skinny, and Beautiful suddenly inhabiting the body of Mr Short, Buff, and Ordinary - and vice versa.)

angst or crack. (Angst with a happy ending. But I do love a good crack fic too!)

apocalyptic or mundane. (Mundane please. Apocalyptic fic stresses me out instead of being fun.)

#fanfiction tropes #fanfiction preferences #my blorbos #klavier gavin #apollo justice #klapollo #answer if you feel like it

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wordsandstrangeways · 1 year

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Fic trope meme

@hesalleyes tagged me in this like a week and a half ago but it took me this long to figure out how to format on tumblr because I am a grown up human - so Rebecca darling I did get there eventually!

Slowburn or Love at First Sight (See now the best is "love at first sight but they both think it's unrequited so they PINE. GIVE ME YEARNING.)

Fake Dating or Secretly Dating (I love these both so much)

Enemies to Lovers or Best Friends to Lovers (obviously)

“Oh no, there’s Only One Bed” or Long Distance Correspondence (OKay look I love an epistolary but OH THERE'S ONE BED is like, classique)

Hurt/Comfort or Amnesia (as long as we are clear that the comfort is *actually* comfort, in the fic, not implied after)

Fantasy AU or Modern AU (I actually love both of these but as most of the fic I read is in a fantasy setting the modern au can be real refreshing!)

Mutual Pining or Domestic Bliss (again, both but see 1.)

Smut or Fluff (You can make Fluff smutty this is a false dichotomy)

Canon-Compliant/Missing Scenes or Fix-It (too franchise specific to pick)

Alternate Universe or Future Fic (:D)

One Shot or Multi-chapter (Important to clarify I would read a 100k fic with 1 chapter)

Kid Fic or Road trip Fic (Kid fic not for me, road trips are fun)

Reincarnation or Character Death (OKAY BUT DO THEY STAY DEAD?)

Arranged Marriage or Accidental Marriage (secret third option: fake marriage until it's not)

High School Romance or Middle-Aged Romance

Time Travel or Isolated Together (look.)

Neighbours or Roommates

Sci Fi AU or Magic AU (again, franchise dependant)

Body swap or Gender change (mmm yes. get fucky with gender)

Angst or Crack (I'm a walking shitpost)

Apocalyptic or Mundane (both but apocolypse has so much potential. it's scrungly. I like it a lot)

Worth saying - I couldn't tell of you which of these I answered from a "I like to write" vs a "I like to read" perspective but also I consume so much that i've probably seen it all at one point or another. But the vast majority smut.

#Fic preferences!

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royal-thing · 4 years

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>Tag game

Lol i didn't see this until literally right now @cookie-eat-me it's really the way a fool lives i guess 😔😔😔

Rules: bold which trope you prefer (or, in some cases, maybe just hate the least!) out of each of the following pairs:

slow burn vs. love at first sight

I just Do Not Believe Love At First Sight Is Real, Bob, I'm sorry to say. I just don't buy it, Janet. Seems like a MLM, Susannah.

fake dating vs. secret dating

I don't really care for or about either, but fake dating is slightly more zany I guess?? Secret dating immediately makes me think about the romeo and juliet blinking white guy meme

enemies to lovers vs. best friends to lovers

I don't read all that many best friends to lovers fics?? I dunno :=/

oh no there's only one bed vs. long-distance correspondence

Look. Oh no there's only one bed doesn't make anyone involved feel anything but distinctly uncomfortable in real life. It's so fucking awful sleeping next to another person. Don't let the fics fool you. I've literally never so much as sniffed a long-distance fic on the horizon but just because I fucking hate the single bed idea.

hurt/comfort vs. amnesia

Amnesia's played out at this point :=/ what else can u do with it?? Feel free to enlighten me 😔😔😔 I genuinely do not know

fantasy au vs. modern au

Sorry to modern au but if i wanted to look out over the recession I would go outside. If I'm doing escapism I'm doing it all the way babey

mutual pining vs. domestic bliss

Look,,,,,,,, sorry but I don't care to watch two (or more) idiots struggle to communicate feelings to each other. I already have to pilot one idiot who struggles to communicate his feelings to the world at large. Enough is enough, just kiss and be happy already

smut vs. fluff

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmthirst is not for me

canon compliant vs. fix-it

Depends on the canon tbh but I like it when everything goes to shit and no one is happy so fixing it is nice but not necessary

reincarnation vs. character death

:=/

one-shot vs. multichapter

Does it need to be said

kid fic vs. roadtrip fic

I don't really care about either but I once saw a fic of a pair discovering an abandoned baby n it was wholesome so

arranged marriage vs. accidental marriage

Don't care for either, picked at random

high school romance vs. middle-aged romance

I'm tired of high-schoolers :=/ I spent 5 years of my life being a whiny stick insect why would I care about looking back on it

time travel vs. isolated together

God time travel time travel is the only reason my soul hasn't already vacated my body it's so fucking great pretty much no matter the reason or setting

neighbours vs. roommates

And they were roommates

oh my god they were roommates

sci-fi au vs. magic au

Mmmmmmmmmmm if the science is bad I end up compulsively pointing it out so

body swap vs. genderbend

Genderbend makes me wanna gender end my life

It's called dysphoria Harold

angst vs. crack

Look if you can't be on drugs what can you be on, huh

apocalyptic vs. mundane

', ;)

Tags: anyone who sees this and wants to do it I guess?? I have one (1) mutual and they tagged me so

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