I'm going to do NaNoWriMo this year (long ways away, I know), and am doing some planning on the novel. I have some ideas from about five years ago that I put on the back burner due to other novels. It's about some bat-like, shape-shifting, telepathing creatures that spend most of their time in human form. Originally, it was sci-fi, but I've always written fantasy (high fantasy that is).
I want to try something new, but in order for it to be sci-fi, I would have to have an explanation for the creatures. This means they would be genetically enhanced, or I would have to make them naturally inhabit another planet. Fantasy, on the other hand, would require little or no explanation. The two genres are totally different.
The reason I want to plan now is because I want to save November for writing only.
I've explored some sub-genres, and here are some ideas:
High fantasy (the genre I write in all the time - the creatures exist on a totally different world)
Low fantasy (the creatures exist on earth as we know it)
Hypothetical fantasy (I don't think that's the real name - it might be sci-fi actually - but it deals with questions like "What if someone else won the world wars?" or "What if Rome had never fallen?)
Sci-fi (they were genetically enhanced, or they exist on another planet)
What should I go with?
I want to try something new, but in order for it to be sci-fi, I would have to have an explanation for the creatures. This means they would be genetically enhanced, or I would have to make them naturally inhabit another planet. Fantasy, on the other hand, would require little or no explanation. The two genres are totally different.
The reason I want to plan now is because I want to save November for writing only.
I've explored some sub-genres, and here are some ideas:
High fantasy (the genre I write in all the time - the creatures exist on a totally different world)
Low fantasy (the creatures exist on earth as we know it)
Hypothetical fantasy (I don't think that's the real name - it might be sci-fi actually - but it deals with questions like "What if someone else won the world wars?" or "What if Rome had never fallen?)
Sci-fi (they were genetically enhanced, or they exist on another planet)
What should I go with?