Well, never say never... I recently finished writing a short story for a competition which had to feature a specific area of Cornwall. It's amazing what you can produce when you bend your mind to a challenge. But I guess the question was more about style and genre. I'd write anything except graphic violence, porn and that kind of rambling acid writing stuff, you know the type of thing, psychedelic. Oh, and random bosom-beating or emo poetry that doesn't scan... (On second thoughts, some of that sounds like fun...not the violence, though.)
I couldn't write extreme violence or gore because I can't stomache it. Also, I have nightmares so horror is out. Historical fiction is a genre I would avoid because I am such a stickler for accuracy and I'm sure I would forget something. Other than those three, I wouldn't count anything out. But I agree with Unsavory, I won't write something just because it would sell.
I'd never write anything that is pro-religous. Sorry if this offends anyone - there is no reason why it should, but just in case.
There's nothing I would never write, but there's a story I doubt I'd let many read. I plan on writing it next, and it has a very religious context and I come from the bible belt, and if you don't agree with what others believe, well, my family would probably be outcast. So I would write it, but I would leave it locked up for my sons future enjoyment when he's older.
I'm not one to rule things out, as I find when you do, you end up eating your own words. That being said, I'm inclined to agree with the general consensus of avoiding vampire romance, genre-romance, historical fiction and writing things for the market rather than for the writing itself. But, as has been said already ... never say never.
After reading Wrey's post. . . I would never impose pointless restrictions on my writing. To each their own, I suppose. That's eleven E's in this post alone.
I could never write a story without ellipses in someone's dialogue, somewhere. Oh, I try to fight it, but in the end....
This is a bad habit I share... one day, I will write a story with the aim in mind to kick it, one day. That day... has not yet come. As for matters of content, I suppose I'd never write something which exists for no purpose other than to further views I disagree with or don't support- I would certainly write something from the perspective of someone who holds an opinion I don't share, but I wouldn't go out of my way to prove they are right (or wrong for that matter).
The only thing I would have trouble writing is a rape scene. I think I would avoid that at all costs.
I don't think there is a subject to taboo for me. In fact I can't really think of anything that I wouldn't write about. Not to say I would enjoy writing it all, but I don't like limiting myself... Speaking of elipsis. I suppose I am like Phantasmal Reality. I don't think I will ever write a story without some form of elipses in it somewhere. But as far as subjects go I will write anything and everything.
It's only bad if you go overboard. I have a pretty liberal interpretation of what "overboard" is when it comes to ellipses, but there are many situations where they're just so... appropriate. I... I can't resist using them then. 0_o
Lmao. We were required to present our book reports in front of the class when I was a sophomore. One guy talked about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. He rambled on for a few minutes, then said something along the lines of: "And the next thing that happened in the movie was..." I wouldn't write a word-porno.
For the most part, I agree - never say never. I would have said I would never write a story with fairies in it. Then a competition arose here, the first one I had already decided to enter, no matter the topic - and that is what it was. Fairies. Hah. I will, however, throw something new into the mix. Can't believe it hasn't already been said with all these posts, even once - gore, or horror. I scare myself too much. I thought up a story for a different competition, and couldn't get it finished because in an attempt to veer away from the ordinary take on the idea, it got too scary for me to write - I just kept seeing terrifying flashes of scenes that would have come naturally in the story, and couldn't sleep that night! So, no horror for me!
Fantastic post, would read again. A+ top notch, and so forth. In fact, I almost feel inclined to write a story about Bill Hicks conjuring up a certain Antichrist being or another to attack Denis, but then that would quickly turn into some horrific twink porno stuff. Which I guess wouldn't be that bad, in retrospect.
^ Hahahaha. It's not even the fact I'm a fan of Bill Hicks that has lead to my dislike of Leary. I just ... can't stand him.
I would never write horrible cliche swords-and-dragon fantasy without severely twisting up the formula. I would also never write anything personally condoning any religion. I can't think of anything else, so I assume it's all fair game...until something pops into my head.
I'm a little chicken to write action scenes. I need to get over it though, because there's going to be some in what I'm working on now.
I'd never write my characters' accents into the text. I hate it when writers do that; it's jarring and invariably destroys smooth reading of a dialogue when you need to ask whether 'brahn' means 'bran', 'brown', or 'brawn'.
High-five! If i see another vampire romance book with the same or close to the same plot as twilight sitting on the front table of my local Borders, cute animals will die! >=3 Think about the animals!
Maybe in travel writing or other such things where there's many different accents, but otherwise it's gratuitous and irritating for a reader to slog through.
Anything with the word chronicles in the title. Ever. I took a Sharpie to that word in my dictionary.
