My Preferred Writing Genres

I prefer to write in one of two genres. The first technical genre as defined by Yagoda would be persuasion, but more specifically I enjoy writing in the legal genre. I also sometimes enjoy writing fiction, although I do not do it on my own and have only written fiction pieces for classes. I think that I prefer fiction because I enjoy reading fiction, in fact it accounts for almost all of my recreational reading. I also think that I prefer to write in the legal genre because it really interests me. Another reason that I think I like writing legal documents is because I plan on using it as a career. I don’t think that the constraints associated with fiction have really influenced the form of my writing in a large way. I tend to be brief with my adjectives and descriptions which, someone pointed out to me, is a technique that Stephen King employs. So that probably influenced me subconsciously because I really enjoy his work. I would really like to someday write a novel, but in realistic terms I think I will most likely end up doing only legal writing in the future. As far as the legal genre goes, they tend to talk in circles and aren't always clear on what they are saying. Law briefs and legal opinions also like to use a lot of jargon that doesn't really mean anything to anyone outside of the law community. I deliberately try to avoid this. I still use legal jargon that is necessary to sounding professional in this genre, but I don’t use it excessively and I try very hard to make my points clear in my legal writing. I would really like it if people outside of the legal community would be able to understand most of my legal writing. I feel that would be very useful because people outside of the law community do often have to read law briefs, and speaking from experience it’s really frustrating when you've read eight pages of a brief and you still have no idea what they are saying. That has definitely consciously influenced my legal writing.