I love those forwards out there where you have to fill in all your favorite things.  It’ll ask for your favorite color and your favorite number, your favorite kind of food and your favorite season.  I’m a sucker, I admit.  I’ll fill those things in and send them on to my friends every time. 

You’d think I’d be bored of filling them out.  I mean, how many times can I tell people what my favorite color and type of food are, right?

But, every time I get one, I find myself pondering over the answers.  Some things don’t change (my favorite color is blue and I prefer the fall to any other season) but some things do (I like Mexican food, but sometimes I like Chinese and Italian better).

I just finished writing a historical.  It was such fun, all that history and all those strictures to work with. 

I thought while I was writing it that I would never want to write any other kind of romance.  But after I was done and starting to get myself pumped to write the story’s sequel, my mind rebeled and here I am, trotting after my muse to write a YA paranormal.

Part of me blames this on my obsession with Harry Potter and the Twilight series.  I’m like a crazed tweener for those books.  But I can see that the strictures of writing about teenage growth and angst would appeal to me as much as writing set in the strictures of the Regency era.

I am nervous though.  I’ve never tried this before and it’s a big stretch from where I just came from.

But I think sometimes it’s fun to stretch out your creative muscles.  How else will I know where I really fit in the end?

Have you ever been tempted to switch genres?  Have you?  If not, why not?  For those readers, do you skip around in different genres?   I know I never read paranormal before this past couple years, though I love it now.