More of a purple writer, but dropping into the blue thread because it's interesting.

I have tried multiple genres. I always end up cycling back to spec fic - my romances develop paranormal themes, my historicals have ghosts, my vague and fruitless attempts at postmodernism end up translating character archetypes into fantasy and critiquing from there. That's just how I roll, and it's how I prefer what I read. I get enough of the reality grind in my day to day life; fiction is where I go to dream big dreams that don't fit in the modern world, whether it's my dream or another writer's.

I actually was completely turned off the writing program at my university because they refused genre fiction completely; the only thing you could write was modern realism (which is itself a genre but whatever, guys, you can keep your hypocrisy over there.)

Then again, I like subverting genre; I like taking something that's "oh God another of THOSE stories" and breaking it over my knee and rearranging the parts into a interesting new configuration. So maybe I'm not, strictly speaking, a genre writer. XD