What genre do you think we should do?

[ZukoJin]

What genre do you like best? Action/adventure? Fantasy? Romance? Comedy? Sports? My friends and I are thinking about entering RoSM (hey! thats the name of my other post!) and I was wondering what genre do YOU think we should do? PLEASE let me know!

[precious]

No one can really tell you what to do, since it's your very own. ^_^ Make a bunch of different scenarios, and choose the one you like best. I suspect you'll do better and enjoy it more doing a genre you prefer more than a genre someone else likes. Good luck!

[Klawzie]

Do the one that you do best. Not everyone's a good romance writer. Not everyone is enthusiastic enough about sports to do it justice. Do what you're passionate about and what you do best and it'll go a lot further than something you did just because of a poll of interest.

[ZukoJin]

I think you got the wrong idea. I didn't mean that we would do the one that most people like best, I just wanted to know what you thought. I mean I'm not going to go and do a horror story just because someone says to! Horror storys scare me!:eek: And sports manga bore me! I was just curious as to what you guys had to say.

[Gaara]

i dunno...i'm doing a shounen manga...but that's just me....:D

[Ambrose_Ring]

Fantasy is good, but it tends to be...overused these days, it seems. So my input would be: No fantasy.

Action is good, but only if you can sequence the action in a way that's easy to follow--otherwise, you're screwed because the manga will be nothing but confusing as hell. Adventure is good too, but the problem with this category is that it's normally rather hard to keep the story basic enough to a one-shot 20-page manga.

Um...Romance is okay if you get the approriate foreplay into action, so that it's not a half-assed thing. If you just spring the love up on the readers, it'll lose its effect, IMHO.

Sci-fi seems to be a rather popular one for the RSoM contest, just like humor, because it's a bit simpler than the other ones to get them into a short, straigh-forward story. The diversity that they allow is also a definite plus side to them.

...But really, it all depends on what you're good at.

[larsony]

I loathe genres. I love Lord of the Rings because its inspired by ageless mythos and legends. I love Foundation by Asimov because it takes a serious look at the development of governments and culture (although it gets cornball with mutants, but even that is written into the story's philosophy and not the genres).

Don't write into a genre. Genre should be props (laser swords make it sci-fi, magic and swords make it fantasy) and not restrictions ("I don't think this matches the dungeon masters guidelines").

[Aratos]

I always liked cyberpunk myself. Postcyberpunk being slightly better. What I want to see is someone sticking the cyberpunk ideas of corrupt governments, the futility of trying to make a difference etc and sticking them in a dark and gritty fantasy setting. Not sure why I haven't tried it though.

[Ayokillyou]

Genre is just the clothing that a story wears.

[Aratos]

Genre's an easy way of selling your work to publishers, actually. Nowt more.

[ZukoJin]

I like shonen and shojo alot too.

[JinCurry]

Just whatever you do...don't make a space soap opera...or whatever it's called :D Most people already know that by now I hope. Good luck~

[ZukoJin]

Got it. I don't really like space stuff anyway. Even though I love Cowboy Bebop. That's my one exception.

[yukineko]

maybe a Comedy or Romance will be fine, I can't thing in another genre being just 20 pages long =__=, I'll choose Comedy&Romance, my manga will be like an introduction to a bigger story or something like that... 20 pages is just too short >.<

[YamPuff]

I loathe genres. I love Lord of the Rings because its inspired by ageless mythos and legends. I love Foundation by Asimov because it takes a serious look at the development of governments and culture (although it gets cornball with mutants, but even that is written into the story's philosophy and not the genres).

Don't write into a genre. Genre should be props (laser swords make it sci-fi, magic and swords make it fantasy) and not restrictions ("I don't think this matches the dungeon masters guidelines").

Hear! Hear! I'm with Larsony.

You could do romance fantasy, science-fiction romance fantasy, science-fiction romance fantasy with horror and action! There is no end to what you could think up. Don't write around a genre; create a genre through what you write!!!

Don't try to be the greyest and blobbiest blob! Be neon pink! Stand out!!!!!! Got carried away there, sorry. =^-^=