Right, right. Google docs it is. Enjoy your [s]UNUSABLE CHAT SYSTEM[/s] working servers. I now realize that all of us choosing a genre will be a bit of a clusterfuck, so I suggest those interested should say what they [i]are[/i] and [i]are not[/i] interested in writing -- and some reasons why -- and we'll whittle our options down once we have enough preferences that there's a noticeable theme. I'll start!

[color=green][b]✓[/b][/color] Stephen King-esque Urban Fantasy/Sci-Fi. I like characters that grew up in the same world as me, with traits similar to people I've met. Not for nothing, I don't know many dudes like Obi-Wan or Borimir, so I find stories set in the modern age (Or at least some point in time from the 50's to now, if any of you guys wanna do a period piece) more identifiable. By "Stephen King-esque" I should explain that I mean "Classic Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror trope explained rationally". [u][i]1408[/i][/u] is about a haunted room, which makes more sense when you consider Stephen King's universe has weak spots in reality Lovecraftian horrorterrors can influence and visit our world through. [u][i]It[/i][/u] is about a monster that turns into your worst fear, which is actually an alien that uses this method to hunt. There are other examples, but I gotta run right now. Point is, I don't like it when fictitious elements aren't explained in some way.

[color=green][b]✓[/b][/color] Space Western/Space Opera. The journey into the unknown wilderness is a common element in writing, no doubt about that, I just think it'd be fun to do so with another planet. Maybe a story about crash-landed astronauts trying to send a distress signal? Anyway, point is, I like Sci-Fi when it's not [i]too[/i] Sci-Fi, so a story about humans set in a nonhuman place seems about the right amount for me.

[color=green][b]✓[/b][/color] Realistic fiction. No space juju, no magic, nothing unnatural of the sort. In order to make this idea interesting, it'd probably mostly be crime-focused. If we're staying strictly realistic I'd prefer to do something set in the past, preferably 1900's onward.


[color=red]✘[/color] Hard Fantasy/Hard Sci-Fi. I find that a lot of projects get abandoned because people spend a lot of time explaining the world as if they were in-world, when really, "It's a generic fantasy world" would do. The federation is always either good (Star Trek, Stargate) or bad (Star Wars, Firefly). The elves are always pretty. The aliens are always more advanced than humans, except for the one group of not-klingons. The dwarves always like gold. It seems a waste of time to create a whole universe that adheres to a lot of the laws of its genre, save for a few details like dragons being able to turn into people or some shit.

[color=red]✘[/color] Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse. This one's more personal than the other, iunno. These last few years, the media has kind of had a zombie boner that I've gotten tired of. If our protagonist doesn't start off in a coma or in a bunker, we have to write out the [i]whole[/i] apocalypse, and even then, The Walking Dead has pretty much done everything with the genre that can be done. Special kinds of zombies? Different factions with different philosophies? The real enemies are the humans? TWD did all of those. Just kinda seems done to undeath at this point.