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Christmas Meme #2
Dec. 3rd, 2019 05:22What is your favorite genre of novel? Or is your so-called literary fiction? (from Oshun)
In the right mood, I'll read just about anything except 'chick lit' (not that I'm above the odd Jilly Cooper). I love books about archaeology and ancient civilisations, historical biographies, weird cults, horror, fantasy, historical fiction, detective fiction (the police procedural type). Not great on humour but I adore Terry Pratchett and the way he could draw a scene with words so that it was almost like reading a graphic novel. I love poetry and 'older' literature (Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Dickens) but my mood needs to be right. I like rereading books I fell in love with, there's nothing quite like turning to an old friend on a bad day.
Also I belong to a free e-books com and regularly pick up books that look like they might be good reads. Some are, most aren't. These end up on my Kindle for PC. I changed computers and somehow the collections got lost and I now have a heap of titles I remember nothing about (my actual kindle is marginally better managed). I choose them at random to dip into - sometimes it's good, sometimes not - so on the PC I'm currently picking at Inside the Wardrobe of Anne Boleyn, because I like these odd corners of useless information. My Kindle book is strong, gritty fantasy, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, which I got sidetracked from ages ago and have started over because it has such a complex weave that I can't place half the characters from memory.
favourite fictional characters to write about. (from Spiced Wine)
I'm not sure I have a particular 'type' of character I prefer - I suppose what the regulars all have in common is that I'd like to sit down and have a cup of tea (or a stiff whisky) with them because they're interesting and I like them. I live in an intensely violent country, if I want horror and grit I just read my news feed. I don't want those people inside my head.
I have characters I love writing - Erestor, Gil-galad, Glorfindel, etc - because over time I've got to know them so well that I can hear their voices and sense their energy, but beyond that I really enjoy discovering OCs. They don't need to be major characters even, I just get so much out of dropping someone into the mix and watching them come alive and expand and develop personality and direction and a backstory. Think my favourite is Cirdan's lady, Maeriel, in Answers, an independent-minded Nandor who has never seen the need to bind and be less 'herself'.
In the right mood, I'll read just about anything except 'chick lit' (not that I'm above the odd Jilly Cooper). I love books about archaeology and ancient civilisations, historical biographies, weird cults, horror, fantasy, historical fiction, detective fiction (the police procedural type). Not great on humour but I adore Terry Pratchett and the way he could draw a scene with words so that it was almost like reading a graphic novel. I love poetry and 'older' literature (Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Dickens) but my mood needs to be right. I like rereading books I fell in love with, there's nothing quite like turning to an old friend on a bad day.
Also I belong to a free e-books com and regularly pick up books that look like they might be good reads. Some are, most aren't. These end up on my Kindle for PC. I changed computers and somehow the collections got lost and I now have a heap of titles I remember nothing about (my actual kindle is marginally better managed). I choose them at random to dip into - sometimes it's good, sometimes not - so on the PC I'm currently picking at Inside the Wardrobe of Anne Boleyn, because I like these odd corners of useless information. My Kindle book is strong, gritty fantasy, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, which I got sidetracked from ages ago and have started over because it has such a complex weave that I can't place half the characters from memory.
favourite fictional characters to write about. (from Spiced Wine)
I'm not sure I have a particular 'type' of character I prefer - I suppose what the regulars all have in common is that I'd like to sit down and have a cup of tea (or a stiff whisky) with them because they're interesting and I like them. I live in an intensely violent country, if I want horror and grit I just read my news feed. I don't want those people inside my head.
I have characters I love writing - Erestor, Gil-galad, Glorfindel, etc - because over time I've got to know them so well that I can hear their voices and sense their energy, but beyond that I really enjoy discovering OCs. They don't need to be major characters even, I just get so much out of dropping someone into the mix and watching them come alive and expand and develop personality and direction and a backstory. Think my favourite is Cirdan's lady, Maeriel, in Answers, an independent-minded Nandor who has never seen the need to bind and be less 'herself'.
