30 Days - day 11

11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?

I think I'm probably notorious (in my own mind at least) as a slash writer who'll happily skip past sex scenes in search of plot, so that ought to tell you more than anyone really needed to know about what genres I like. Not that I am disclaiming the smutty bits, having written a chunk of the stuff myself, it's just that often it seems a little extraneous to the getting-on-with-the-story part of things.

So, I like action-adventure and hurt-comfort - give me a good amnesia story, or one where character A thinks (mistakenly) that character B has betrayed them and it all works out in the end and I'm so there. On the other hand, I don't really do romance except as sandwich filling in the action-adventure as the idea of oh-oh-feeeeeelings as an end unto itself just really doesn't do it for me.

I have also committed AU on a regular basis (see the 'au_bingo' tag for recent evidence), both of the 'what-if-this-happened-instead?' type but also the Jack is a rodeo clown and Daniel is a taxi driver type. Except in Mag7, where the prevalence of other AU makes me resolutely old school Old West and utterly stops me writing the story I'll tell you about tomorrow... ;)