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  • What genre do you write?

    Why did you pick that one?

    Do you stick to a genre or bounce around?

  • #2
    Re: What genre do you write?

    It's really fun to fly around and beat people up in really cool, choreographed ways, but society doesn't like it when I bust out my Kung Fu on the metro.

    So I write action scripts instead.
    Chicks Who Script podcast

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    • #3
      Re: What genre do you write?

      What genre do you write?
      Action.

      Why did you pick that one?
      I like my scripts/stories to be fast paced, full of set pieces, gunshots, and sexy bitches. That, and I have experience in high intensity situations which I can easily carry over.

      Do you stick to a genre or bounce around?
      Once I complete my action specs for the year, I like to experiment in other genres -- Horror, Thriller, and Fantasy/Sci-Fi.
      2011 Screenwriting Goal: 15 pages a day.

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      • #4
        Re: What genre do you write?

        I've been bouncing around lately -- basically I write whatever my best concept is.

        Unless it's a romcom. I don't trust my ability at those.
        Steven Palmer Peterson

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        • #5
          Re: What genre do you write?

          Thriller -- or anything in that vicinity.

          It's my favorite genre to read, plus the script that got me repped was a thriller. Luckily thriller can be anything from action thriller, to contained thriller, to drama thriller, etc etc.

          I don't really dabble in much else right now. But I do have some projects that are outside the genre that I eventually want to write in time -- for me.
          Quack.

          Writer on a cable drama.

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          • #6
            Re: What genre do you write?

            In screenplay:

            drama - thriller
            action
            romantic - action

            ... so far....

            Why? Ideas that hit me required it^^.

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            • #7
              Re: What genre do you write?

              I'm all over the place. I prefer historically or period-based stories like THE LAST SAMURAI, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN or SHERLOCK HOLMES.

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              • #8
                Re: What genre do you write?

                I like to write - and have written - in a variety of genres. But when I come up with ideas, I tend to get excited about and gravitate towards thrillers and action.

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                • #9
                  Re: What genre do you write?

                  To me there are the stories from my heart that I write and the stories in my head.

                  The former are almost always historical or drama and the latter are always action-thrillers.

                  So yeah, kinda like Hamboogul, except more Roman centric for my historical/period writing.
                  The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

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                  • #10
                    Re: What genre do you write?

                    Lately, sci-fi. I enjoy writing beyond the world we know, logical marvels, etc. I seriously underestimated how painstaking it is, but still love it.

                    Before this I wrote some comedy, a drama, and a really bad thriller. I actually think the thriller was hardest to establish, for me, anyway. So far, sci-fi is my favorite to write, and (as of today) I want to stick with it.
                    Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

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                    • #11
                      Re: What genre do you write?

                      When I first got started, I thought I was a comedy guy. Gradually, I've drifted toward tentpole type movies. Action/adventure/comedy type stuff.

                      I've just begun the brainstorming process on a straight action/thriller, which is kind of new to me. Pretty pumped about it. It's got a big action concept, with fairly dramatic storyline. Should be challenging, and a lot of fun.
                      QUESTICLES -- It's about balls on a mission.

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                      • #12
                        Re: What genre do you write?

                        I write stories where my characters are ostracized or discriminated against because of their sexual orientation like BOYS DON'T CRY or THE CRYING GAME.

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                        • #13
                          Re: What genre do you write?

                          Originally posted by Derek Haas View Post
                          I write stories where my characters are ostracized or discriminated against because of their sexual orientation like BOYS DON'T CRY or THE CRYING GAME.
                          3 MEN TO YUMA makes me cry every time.
                          QUESTICLES -- It's about balls on a mission.

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                          • #14
                            Re: What genre do you write?

                            Is fucking with people a genre? It should be a genre. fuck-pop.
                            Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

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                            • #15
                              Re: What genre do you write?

                              Started with straight-up thrillers and now write action-thrillers.

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