What kind of story are you?
I'm proofreading a class manuscript by stonetalker and I came across this quote:
“Lives are not stories. A day, a month, a year, or a lifetime has no plot. Our experiences are only the raw stuff of stories. The beginnings of our lives are arbitrary; usually their endings come too soon or too late for any neat narrative conclusions. ~~ Richard White
It's interesting, but I disagree with it. I do consider my life a story, told in collaboration between me and the Universe. That quickly led me to ponder what kind of story I am. Well, "what if?" forms a running thread through my life, so I'm speculative fiction, varying between science fiction (when I'm trying to repair the future before it kills us) and fantasy (when I'm figuring out magical theory or the like). Whereupon one of my characters mused, "But not horror?" And I laughed mentally and allowed, "Well, I wouldn't recommend reading me late at night."
It occured to me that there are as many types of life as there are genres of fiction, if not more. I write what I live; I suspect that other writers often do the same (or else the opposite). So here's the meme ...
What kind of story are you? If your life were written out as a novel, what genre(s) would it be?
“Lives are not stories. A day, a month, a year, or a lifetime has no plot. Our experiences are only the raw stuff of stories. The beginnings of our lives are arbitrary; usually their endings come too soon or too late for any neat narrative conclusions. ~~ Richard White
It's interesting, but I disagree with it. I do consider my life a story, told in collaboration between me and the Universe. That quickly led me to ponder what kind of story I am. Well, "what if?" forms a running thread through my life, so I'm speculative fiction, varying between science fiction (when I'm trying to repair the future before it kills us) and fantasy (when I'm figuring out magical theory or the like). Whereupon one of my characters mused, "But not horror?" And I laughed mentally and allowed, "Well, I wouldn't recommend reading me late at night."
It occured to me that there are as many types of life as there are genres of fiction, if not more. I write what I live; I suspect that other writers often do the same (or else the opposite). So here's the meme ...
What kind of story are you? If your life were written out as a novel, what genre(s) would it be?