My main genre for both reading and writing is contemporary YA - I'm getting more and more into reading non-fiction these days, and have started reading adult contemporary novels, but contemporary YA is still probably my go-to genre.
This wasn't always the case though! Up until I was maybe 15/16 or so I very much gravitated towards speculative fiction - mostly fantasy and a bit of sci-fi (both for reading and writing).
I'd love to write more historical kind of stuff - but it's a bit intimidating and I'd probably just go down the rabbit hole researching and then never write the thing XD
I don't tend to really think too much about the genre of what I write, even though it definitely tends to fall under the contemporary/realistic umbrella 80% of the time. I like @Evander's comment about writing under the umbrella of an idea rather than genre - I generally start with a premise or a character and go from there, and not think too much about genre - beyond "is this realistic or speculative fiction?".
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