So. The last month has been pretty meh for me as a writer. I started out bouncing between two projects, then came up with a third (which is a VN for a game jam, so it has a time limit) and now I'm bouncing between three projects. And the first two aren't even proceeding all that well. (The one that ought to be the priority, the rewrite of book four of my series from 2014, has been moving the slowest; I'm barely into the first chapter!) There hasn't been any particular obstacle to my writing--aside from summer heat, which is always an obstacle to everything, as I am not good at dealing with heat--it's just not been flowing very quickly by my standards.
Anyway, point is, I don't have a lot to say, so I guess I'll look into the monthly discussion question.
July 2 question - Is there a genre you haven't tried writing in yet that you really want to try? If so, do you plan on trying it?
Hmm.
Well...not really?
Or rather, there are genres I've never successfully written a complete work in that I might like to someday? I've never written anything to completion that was sci-fi (aside from some Star Wars fanfic back in college, before I even knew the term "fan fiction"), and I would kind of like to someday, but I would need the right story idea before I even tried it. I can't really say that I "plan" on writing sci-fi someday, because I can never predict what kind of ideas I'll come up with before I come up with them. Although there was the "Trojan War in space" novel I tried to write, which I would like to get back to and rework and complete someday. That wouldn't end up as a novel, though; it needs to be something more along the lines of a hybrid strategy RPG and visual novel. Which in itself causes all sorts of problems since in addition to needing to be able to actually write the dang thing, I'd also need to find a programmer and one or more artists, but I don't work well with other people. (Which means it will probably never happen, even if I do manage to get the script written.)
Similarly, in the past I started an isekai VN script and a reverse-isekai fanfic, but didn't manage to finish either. I'm not entirely sure I actually want to work in either of those genres, though they do offer a lot of interesting possibilities, to be sure. Oh, actually, I started a different isekai work once, too, but didn't get very far into it because one of the only ideas I had for it was "isekai protagonist who is not the special and in fact has zero useful abilities and is just running an average store in town while someone else who merely passed through once or twice is actually the hero out saving the world" but that was going to be very boring. I'm not even sure if it was going to be an original work of fiction or if I was planning to make it a VN. I think the former, though.
I suppose if there's a genre that I've never touched at all that I might like to, it would be more along the lines of the "palace intrigue" novel. But it's unlikely that I'd attempt a genre like that. I don't even have much experience reading that genre. (The Apothecary Diaries could plausibly be called "palace intrigue," but that's pretty much the only one I've read, really? (And I've currently only read the first two out of I don't know how many volumes of it.) The novel that the hero of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish transmigrated into was a palace intrigue novel, but I don't think that counts, since the novel I read was a transmigration danmei, so it would fall into the "isekai" genre (if it's not too deeply wrong to apply a Japanese word to define the genre of a Chinese novel) rather than palace intrigue.) I doubt I'd ever actually try my hand at the genre because my understanding of people is not actually what it would need to be to successfully write that genre. (Admittedly, that hamstrings my writing in all genres, but the less need there is for deep psychological understanding of highly complex characters the more chance that I can at least write something halfway decent.)
Hmm.
Another chaotic and pointless post from me.
I feel like I need to apologize to the internet as a whole for my own existence.
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