I've come back to Subeta after being inactive for quite a while, and I've finally started writing stories for some of my pets. I was thinking about how my stories tend to be more fantasy based and how quite a few of my characters are god-like in nature, from Susurrous being an almost all-knowing celestial being to Forested being an ancient forest guardian with all sorts of powers. Protector is a warrior-god whose human character is almost identical to me, (somewhat embarrassing to admit, but I guess it's easier to write if I can relate, lol).

Not a god, but Enliven is supposed to be an undead necromancer when his story comes to life (pun intended). Still, it's more of fantasy-type story.

Now I'm thinking about Misanthropist... I don't want him to be a stereotypical, grumpy, arrogant misanthrope. Nor do I want him to be some eye-rolling hipster who somehow thinks he's separate from the general public. I'm actually very anti-misanthrope in a lot of ways myself, so writing for a character whose supposed to hate people is tricky. I want him to be more complex and for him to know psychology and be knowledgeable on how people work and behave, I picture him being a resentful but understanding individual, like a self-loathing outcast who can't quite control himself and understands why people don't like him.

With that, I think he'd be the first of my pets to have a less fantasy based story. Whoopie. Well, that may change since I haven't written it yet, but yeah.

SO, what genre do you tend write in? Do you like sci-fi? Steampunk? Stories that revolve around the pet species? Cute stories? Fanfics? Myth-based fantasy? Let me knooow. 'Cause I find stuff like this interesting. It'd be even better if you could tell me why you like certain genres, like if you read a lot of sci-fi and that inspires you.

Hehe nice idea. I have a misantroph like Character myself, so sadly not here on subeta cause all names I would use for him are sadly taken. He is more the "I solve all my problems with alcohol" - guy and he actually is not arrogant.. but more the sarkastic not very nice guy (actually the reason people do not like him). He does not like much people and avoids closer bonds.. cause he is affraid of it, affraid to be hurt by others.

I have more than one genre I write in like fantasy, Sifi (but rarely), Cyberpunk, ancient Rome related stuff and Post Apocalyptic. These are the settings my characters are mostly settled in and I tend to write about =). I somtimes use existing worlds of games or RPGs I write in but nearly all characters are my own OCs in that worlds.

So Darion, Santiago and Vault are good examples for my Post Apocaliptic stuff, Kyron, Tarvik, Laertes and Justus for my Fantasy things, Yago is Cyberpunk, Navarre is SiFi and Marcius is a character of one of my Roman stories.

All of them have at least a bit of their story writen down =).

Why I like all this stuff ?

Actually I allways loved Fantasy and I read a lot of Fantasy books, play Fantasy RPs, which inspire me a lot, same I have with Cyberpunk and Postapocalyptic stuff.. also Falloout added a good part to this ^^.

With Sifi stuff I am a lot more picky. I read books about it from time to time but not as much as I do with Fanatsy, Cyberpunk or PA stuff. Here I am very influenced my Mass Effect to be honest.. cause I love the world they have created there ^^

Roman/Greek things.. I guess not very suprising regarding my username.. I love greek mythology (I allways did) and ancient Rome I find fascinating so I decided to take this times and make a galdiator like character and write about him =).

The way my stories work... well, I like to paint with words. Whether fantasy or down to earth/mundane, my writing tends to have a hypersensual element which may or may not blur the line between imagination & reality. I'm a poet by nature, and probably have synesthesia, so my own senses are naturally muddled. Because of this I suppose it becomes natural for me to write about how individual characters experience / become immersed in moments in time.

..it also means that I absolutely suck at longer, plot-driven stories; since everything is poured into & blooms from the now (possibly in abstract form, like a daydream), an extended version of this would be unnatural &/or exhausting (both to write [about] & to experience). ( 1k words is a lot i my book;;; ) ..So basically nothing ever happens when I write. There's just a lot of thoughts / feelings floating about aimlessly. :c

So, I usually write snippets about [introspective] moments / thought-experiences with really short time-frames. (3rd person observations also work, but usually only for summary-like purposes.) My worlds are either the real world, a fantastical version of it (subjective or objective), or some fantasy realm.

..All that said, I am trying to get into more plot-based writing... though it would have helped if I were somewhat better at thinking up plots in the first place (also having the patience / attention span to surpass a hyperactive kitten would've been nice). << I suppose I've always been better at who someone is + what they're thinking & feeling than where they are + what they're doing + where they're going, and I don't quite know how to break out of that. Finding that initial catalyst to get a/the story going has always been extremely difficult for me. /:

Writing/Story Goals: i) figure out what's actually going on :'D ii) write about character(s) actually going from point A to point B (and maybe even to point C??!) rather than being stuck floating in A

tl;dr I like character-based poetic proseish type writing, and I don't know how to plot (:

I'm more of a tragedy writer, mostly with a horror or crime theme, sometimes with added supernatural elements. I think in the end, I prefer more or less realistic and modern characters somehow got tangled in some shit storms, to reflect the ugliness of human nature.

I think I tend to write more fantasy, veering more into fairy tale like stories. A lot of what I come up with is from winging it. Give me an idea or two to spark my curiosity and 30 minutes, I'll probably come up with something. coughs The whole reason behind Macedonia's story. coughs

Probably all stems from loving fantasy and fairy tales. Though more than once I've had people think it was more from me being on something. lmao

I do understand your plot problem, it's hard thinking of plots you like and can stick with. I only have a few, but I'm almost lucky because some of my plots are over 10 years old. Thinking of new plots is hard. I often write a story then rewrite large portions of it because I find the plot to be too unoriginal and boring. OR, honestly, I have trouble doing what YOU find easy: using pleasantly colorful, descriptive language that feels poetic while also making sense and being able to evoke more satisfying emotional responses to a moment or situation. I usually feel like I can't do that without being cheesy or looking like I'm trying too damn hard. I'm just not satisfied with my wording most of the time, and a lot of the time what I wind up doing is actually writing a story, not being too sure of myself and then just leave it for my future self to criticize. I'm more or less doing that with Forested at the moment.

Overly literary ones that are probably too pretentious for anyone to like haha. And I don't ever end up finishing them. Hesper is my most recent example.