What do you most write about?

For me, I like to write most about different aspect of life.

 

My short works are about relationships (non-romantic).

Mother-daughter
Siblings
Grandparent-grandchild
Friendships
Etc.
Dont know why that is, but i keep going back to those subjects. I may dress them up as "surreal/speculative" or "horror" or "science fiction" but at the root, its relationships.

My longer works... I could sum them up and say "otherness" and "belonging"
My MCs are trying to figure out where they belong

 

Well, that sort of covers everything, doesn't it?

 

Off the top of my head I can think of five themes I continually go back to the well for. They are: courage, sacrifice, redemption, perseverance, and forbidden and/or unrealized love.

You might think I would get tired of repurposing those, but I never do. In fact, I'm always hunting for new books emphasizing those same themes.

 

Well. Relationship is always an interesting subject to read about it not just to write about it.

 

Well, it does. However, what I meant that I don’t tend to write about stories. I tend to write about different aspect that are related to my life

 

So like "slice of life" pieces.

 

I feel like I've got a common theme about outsiders making/finding a place for themselves. This also heavily features finding people they fit with, like a found-family sort of thing.

But I don't always write about that. A current WIP is if anything more of an inverse, about a pair of brothers who end up destroying their relationship beyond repair. Though thinking about it, they do so by finding a place for themselves. It just happens to be opposing each other.

Also: it's all some kind of sci-fi/fantasy.

 

Anything that takes my fancy.

 

Interesting. Its always hard for outsiders to find people they fit with. That’s interesting to be written about.

 

Interesting. Its always hard for outsiders to find people they fit with. That’s interesting to be written about.

 

I write about everyday life, often from a humorist point of view. Picking out the irony, the preconceptions and things we take for granted. The few non-fiction pieces I have written all contained mostly real life events with the names changed or sequence changed. Any of the feelings I have ever shared, or observations are all first hand. I really do only write what I know.

 

I like to write about futures of man's triumph over nature, where the only thing left to fight is himself. Medical technology treats almost every illness, genetically-modified food grows faster than the population can eat, and civilization's light shines brighter than the stars. War is conducted with self-aiming guns, automated mortars, and remote-controlled flesh golem bodies. Junkies simulate the high of every drug at once without any of the consequences thanks to electronic brain stimulation, and VR addicts turn to video games to assign them purpose. Decadence or the prosperity of endgame civilization? I don't care to make a statement. It's just a neat setting.

 

Hero's journey mostly for me, and the hero is usually a woman. So heroine, I guess.

 

I write about people meeting under (hopefully) interesting circumstances, who overcome challenges and fall in love along the way to their eventual Happily Ever After.

 

The slow churning and mundane distortion of humanity in all its forms.

 

The corruption of humanity and its struggle against its own fate. Decadence, systemic downfall and the futility of fighting it. The overarching theme that where everything seems corrupt, upside-down and evil, individual people are each kind, understanding and up-front to each other in person.

 

Interesting. Thats a big subject to write about and hard to cover different points of view of looking at it.

 

I write about cultures and how hard is adapting to a new culture while keeping our own identity. I write about living abroad and how uneasy is to adapt to new ways of living that is totally different of how we used to live. I write about diversity. I write about different languages and how speaking new languages has influence on our ways of thinking. I write about characters analysis and self-development.

 

Humans being forced to hold up a mirror, forced to evaluate their logic, ethics, and emotions at every level.

I also enjoy subverting the Wise Old Man's credence, but probably shouldn't make a habit of it.

 

Coffee, apparently.

Mainly Sci-fi, cause the aesthetic is fun and
lets the imagination flow in some interesting
ways. Though, I'm getting away from the stereo
type of War in that setting, since it is way over
done, that it is beyond burnt out. At least for
me.

 

Fantasy, talking mice, sometimes slice of life.

 

Something I've noticed is a tendency to focus on the natural surroundings, and in particular to always have at least one character in stories be good at, or at least familiar with, gardening. Other themes are those of love and loss, struggle against self-deprecation, and familial and friendship-love as opposed to that of romantic or passionate love. I highly value the trust involved with developing a deep and lasting friendship, so that tends to show up often as well. Something that's often missing in my writing is parental figures, with characters who deal with the fallout of abandonment either intentional or unintentional on their parental figures' parts, and the ramifications of various relationships and emotions associated with a character's growth.

tldr; lots of nature and emotional growth