Yep, you got me. I love science fiction, fantasy and a mixture of both. I’m not a contemporary person. Now, don’t get me wrong. I read the occasional contemporary. And I love intermixing fantasy worlds with the contemporary, but I don’t really care for contemporary contemporary… at least not to write, and only sometimes to read.
Basically my brain goes – but you’ve been there, done that… you want things that aren’t real. And it’s right. I do.
My favourite movies are Labyrinthe, Event Horizon, Aladdin (yes, the Disney version), The Princess Bride, Tangled… well, I guess I love a lot of movies, but I think you get my drift.
I do love Harry Potter – which is a fantastical setting in contemporary England. And I have to admit to loving Dead Poet’s Society, mainly because of my love for Robin Williams.
I digress, as usual. But I adore elements of the unreal. I like to create my worlds, my histories, my political motivations. I love to let my characters loose in a world that probably never could or wouldn’t exist except in my story.
And so, this is what I write. Basically, and probably like everyone else, I want to write a book that I’d love to read. That and I don’t think my brain would let me work without these elements. It’s introduced them for as long as I can remember.
Do your likes and dislikes impact what you write? Is your favourite reading genre different from what you write?
I definitely write what I like to read. though I’m finding that paranormal might be more of my writing thing than fantasy, but I love to read both.
Terrific post. I love the Princess Bride. Love that Entertainment Weekly featured this movie a few months ago!
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I love the look of your site – have you changed it recently? I write what I love to read now that I think about it – humourous memoir – but I also love fiction , particularly thrillers, crime, adventure, fantasy.
Yes, I tend to write what I enjoy reading, but I’m harder on myself than I am on the books I read. I don’t know why. I also like a hint of the fantastic.
I write fantasy pretty much for the same reason that you do – contemporary bores me, because it’s what I live in every day. Fantasy is my favorite to read as well, though I do love a good historical fiction book frequently as well :).
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I LOVE Aladdin. Our dog is named Jasmine, Jazzy for short. 😉 Definitely what I like to read impacts what I like to write, but I am a genre-jumper. I read a lot of one and then need to move on and read a lot of another.
OMG I adore Aladdin! It’s like my FAVOURITE! I wish I could genre-jump. I just can’t do it.
Hmm …. I read most genres, and right now it feels like I’m writing in most genres too, so I guess it’s a match 😉
That’s awesome. Read everything, write everything 😀