Brynjar, on 07 September 2010 - 08:12 PM, said:
The main problem with other genres that I like reading is that I see too many obstacles for me as a writer to deal with, that fantasy/sci-fi allows you to get past by the freedoms the genre offers.
I'm not smart enough to write police/detective stuff or noir and make the story fit or give it a surprising twist that people won't see coming after the first 50 lines. I also know far too little about police techniques to write a modern-day thingie.
For some reason or other, westerns for me are purely movie-stuff, despite me loving the genre to bits.
Superhero things, cool as they are, belong imho in comics (would require collaboration, which makes things very hard).
And if I'd do a historical novel, I'd much rather spice it up with just slightly more freedom in the circumstances than I'd allow myself if I stuck to history with just a fictional character set. I'd want to do things with the story that people can recognize and relate to in history, and then play with their expectations by giving things a twist away from historical outcomes.