What do you mean, "Unless"? I can't imagine any subject I wouldn't write about. The limits would be my ability. Which actually leaves it hard to think of anything that I would write about, come to think of it.
Actually, I really love cuteness too that's where the first number 2 comes in. The cute female character is sort of like my staple for comic relief. XD
I've always been more partial to tough female characters when I write, that's just me though. I guess I haven't really, truly attempted doing a silly cute female character yet though. =]
To answer the OP: war novels. Well, I've noticed that about 90% - or more - of romance writers are women. Perhaps guys in general don't like writing romance?
well maybe some people prefer having romance as a side thing rather than the central issue of the story, which is what I prefer
I'd have to agree with the majority. I would never write: Sci-fi Fantasy Porn/erotica War History Mostly because my writing time is very limited and most of these would take far too much research time - not to mention, they don't interest me.
i love writing si-fi im actually writing one at the moment. i also enjoy fantasy and have some good yet fairly generic ideas there things i would touch. fan fiction - dont ruin what is great anything in present tense psychological thrillers - i jsut dont think they have the same effect in a book as they do in a movie
Anything that I don't understand - eg Politics. It would be shoddily written because I don't understand it, and nobody would want to read that = a waste of time. I don't even like thinking about it lol. x
Politics is easy. Hurl slander and daggers at everyone, while making yourself look real good and selfless. If someone questions you, bury them under a huge pile of papers. Resume looking good and selfless.
Lies! There's a reason why games like Civilisation and Diplomacy are typically played by obsessively logical people! But as for what I wouldn't write, fantasy. It used to be my favorite genre, both to read and to write, but as I grew older I found I preferred novels with more psychological or philosophical themes. I prefer reading about a well-structured mental collapse than a battle for the fate of a million lives. This inevitably ended up hurling me into the depraved depths of the romance market. There's a few diamonds in the rough, but most of them are awful. My favorite genre at the moment is psychological thriller. I just feel that fantasy tends to focus too much on conflicts rather than people, and recycles a few plots over and over again. For a similar reason, I wouldn't write 'hard' sci-fi - it ultimately becomes a techno-porn fest. While the world-building aspects of fantasy and sci-fi are intriguing, they're also impossibly difficult to get right. Even Tolkien, in my opinion, failed at balancing world-building with the actual plot of his story. World-building tends to become an addiction, when really it should be a minor part of a plot. I once wrote 6,000 words summarising the mythology and creation of my fantasy world - and, according to estimates I made at the time, would have written 40,000 words in total, had I finished. That's obscene.
Anything in the real world. Call me escapist and what have you, but I simply dislike it. I like being able to create my own worlds and history and cultures. Writing in the real world seems a bit like fan fiction to me. Oh, by the way, fantasy != quest / saving the world plots. Fantasy is just... er, I don't know how to phrase this, it's just a sandbox, in which you can add whatever sort of plots you want, and whatever type of conflict. That all fantasyists in the world write about gray mages and barbarians and objects of magic power doesn't mean that the whole genre should be dismissed as such.
I will never write a cook book If you've ever tasted my cooking, you'd understand. I refuse to write a book on quantum physics or a shoe repair manual. Now that you got me thinking about it, there are 1.3 billion subjects I'd never write about. That leaves quite a few that I would though..so I'm not out of business.
It's easier for me to say what I will write- general fiction. It isn't that I don't like writing other genres- I'm just nowhere near as effective or talented at them. I'm content to be stuck in such a versatile genre, making the real world my playground and source of endless inspiration.
I can't say there is anything I wouldn't write. In the world of the written word, you never know what will inspire you. I have found myself writing on subject matter I would have never expected to write. This is why I no longer limit myself. It can be intimidating when a story idea takes a direction you never intended but it's a challenge I am open to explore.
It is much easier to write what we would write about, then what we would not, considering the infinite possibilities in the universe. Generally, the advice is, "write what you know." The odds are slim that I'll ever write about Australia in the fourth century B.C., the life-cycle of a newt, or the history of pants, not because those things are boring or controversial, but because I know absolutely nothing about it, just like infinite other things I know absolutely nothing about. I read a book recently (the Devil in the White City) about a serial killer during the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Great book! But I'd probably never write about that because, frankly, if I never read the book, I wouldn't even know that there was a World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. I'd give you a complete list of the things I wouldn't write about, if I could give you a complete list of all the things I don't know. But I don't know what I don't know! But, specifically... no.
I'd never write a romance novel. Those are just paper-wasters to me. I mean I like to include romance in my stories to an extent, but I would never attempt to write a straight up romantic story.
