Hey, my name is Zeus99, and I've been writing for years now. It had always just been a hobby now, but now I want to get serious about it. I'm trying to write a novel, maybe even get published, but already my first problem came up. I can't decide what genre I want to write into. I enjoy reading plenty of different genres, but it's only making it harder to decide what I want to write about.
I like realistic fiction because of the its characters and the plot that can be easy to connect with, but the plots can sometimes be slower, and they lack the fast-paced action of dystopian novels. On the other hand, dystopian, with its plot just full of action and romance, has just become so cliche that it's plots have become so predictable.
My idea for the realistic fiction plot was this: Writing under a pseudonym, a 16-year-old runs a blog on a lot of the larger social issues. He has many supporters because of total honesty and the fact that he manages to write with minimal bias. However, his writing also creates many opponents because they are offended by it. He has received plenty of death threats, but so far no one knows his true identity. When he falls in love with a beautiful girl, he's faced with a difficult decision. She loves him back, but she deeply dislikes his writing - of course she doesn't know it's him. He has to choose whether to accept his writing identity, lose the girl, and just keep writing or whether he'll put his writing identity behind, denying the truth about his writing, but also getting the girl.
I still haven't come up with a lot for dystopian, but I think that dystopian tends to be easier to come up with ideas for.
I was also thinking of the possibility of mixing the two genres. How would I mix the two? I could create the lot in a dystopian world where it's easy for the reader to pick it out as one, but I could create characters who don't completely see the wrong in the society; they have conformed with the world already, and they're not faced with a revolution. Instead the characters would just be faced with some smaller problem that mainly affects them, not the entire society.
If you guys could help me decide, it would be tons of help and I would appreciate it a lot. Thanks!
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