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Post by remadegold on Oct 18, 2007 7:58:58 GMT -5
...where my stories go.
Probably speculative with some gothic and many suspense elements. It basically looks like speculative but reads like suspense. Very, erm, dark, suspense. With swords. And, a....other weird things.
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Oct 18, 2007 9:31:36 GMT -5
You're in the right place!
Jeff
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Post by remadegold on Oct 18, 2007 9:34:39 GMT -5
Awesome. I realized this morning that I had shapeshifters, dragons, phoenixes, samurai, and druids all in one story.
Of course....Eh, nevermind. 0=)
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Oct 18, 2007 11:46:07 GMT -5
It would be the holy grail if you hadn't thrown it into the melting pot with the rest!
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Post by remadegold on Oct 18, 2007 11:50:15 GMT -5
I merely melted down the grail and refashioned it into a spoon. 0=)
It's just an observation, really. The only gothic elements are simply a taste for dark scenes. The suspense....is mostly what I read, so I'm basically a speculative writer who uses mostly suspense elements. I treat genre like setting, which could be the problem.
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Post by Christian Soldier on Oct 21, 2007 5:02:26 GMT -5
Sounds great! How far along are you with the story(-ies), if I may ask?
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Post by The Blue Collared Philosopher on Oct 21, 2007 6:26:41 GMT -5
Man, that sounds like it could be a cool story!
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Post by remadegold on Oct 21, 2007 21:16:24 GMT -5
Man, that sounds like it could be a cool story! Depends on which one you're talking about. The Phoenix and the Dragon set -In the Shadows of the Stars ---draft complete -Tenebrae -- roughly a third done -Into the Sea Grave --- plotted -Shadowless --- plotted Terror's Grace -- started, but may redo Broken Gold, Unmade Gold, and Remade Gold -- postponed indefinitely Pagan -- it'll be awhile before I get to it |
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Post by scholar on Oct 21, 2007 21:26:02 GMT -5
Welcome, Remade. Looks like you've got a nice stovetop full. And your titles are great. Speculative meets suspense....sounds good to me. I look forward to your books being published.
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Post by Divides the Waters on Dec 20, 2007 2:25:40 GMT -5
Remade, I have something of the same problem. One of the members of my writers group, who has been most complimentary when describing my novel to others, still has difficulty placing it in a single genre. I call it an epic fantasy (primarily because of the spiritual content and lack of real science), but it has space travel, "stargates" (of a more Lewisian sort), people with prophetic powers, angelic beings, demonic spirits, worshippers of dark powers, etc. I've jokingly called it "Star Wars meets Stargate meets Milton by way of C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft." This same member described one chapter, a dream sequence, as "Shakespeare on acid...." I'm not sure whether to be flattered or not.  |
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Post by knightofhyn on Jan 11, 2008 15:13:55 GMT -5
I'd be flattered. It's a comparison to Shakespeare. That ain't too bad.
Hey, Remmie, not knowing a niche isn't that hard to believe. Where would DA fit?
For those curious, DA started as a game and turned into a two year, ten project, several thousand page, attachment universe novel to Bryan Davis's Dragons in Our Midst series...now it's set about ten years in the future, dragon children and cars and humans and archangel swords...and a partridge in a pear tree. Talk about hard to find its place...but it's fun!
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Post by myrthman on Jan 12, 2008 13:41:31 GMT -5
I see a phrase on many books in the store/library. It comes to mind now, in light of the current discussion: "A Novel"
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Jan 13, 2008 10:04:39 GMT -5
The term "speculative fiction" is a nice umbrella phrase for this kind of book. It covers, as I like to say, "anything weird."
Jeff
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