Writing Experimentation

[Caveat Lector]

Have you ever experimented in different writing styles and formats and genres, etc. before? How well would you say it paid off? What were the results?

Over this weekend, I decided to try something different: See if I'm capable of writing a whole story over just one weekend. But I decided to start small and go for a six-chapter story. It was interesting. I can't say it's a neat, clean, tidy story, but it did give me a basic idea about certain characteristics of some of my characters, who were otherwise blank slates. It might at least serve as a template for future ideas.

That said, though, I'm not sure if I can really be a six chapter author. It feels a bit odd in some ways, like I have to rush at it. But still worthwhile.

[fleet]

I've written different genres (detective, fairy tale, dating sim, horror). My audience has not complained.

[Mad Harlequin]

Besides poetry, I haven't yet written anything I consider suitable for public consumption that isn't juvenilia (though I'm working to change that), but I've dabbled in different genres for practice and entertainment. I read so much that I have a decent understanding of what constitutes each genre, and as a result, I have many "story seeds" set aside for possible future use.

I'll get around to them once I finish what's currently on my plate, I think.

[kmarsel]

I experiment with different genres, styles, and forms of narratives all the time, and have been fairly successful in my dabbles. I really enjoy writing across genres, so being familiar with multiples genres is important to me.

I'm most comfortable writing flash and short fiction, so creating a VN is my current experimentation.

[truefaiterman]

I'm used to write action and gore/horror, but I had some surprising success with absurd comedy, and right now I'm working on a novel which has my usual stuff combined with noir, drama, and medieval battles (somehow, the setting allows everything I feel like writing about).

I also try and experiment writing in first person, but I SUFFER a lot. Omniscient narrators are my best friends.

[Hazel-Bun]

I have and have "failed" in interesting ways haha I'm a flash fiction author at heart so this transition into VN making has been difficult. I either make my writing abundantly "flowery" to some (poetry background), too depressing (there's always a touch of sadness in my works no matter the genre), too short (drabbles/6 word stories are my friends) or, some odd combo of all three.

I'm about to engage with my first novel after I publish my flash fiction anthology so, I've been grappling with writing inside a set genre and much longer than I'm use to as well

[Lesleigh63]

Not so much genre, but going from linear to branching is causing me headaches.