Great question and reply. I would like to add,read tons of screenplays, your subconscious will meet your writing and your voice(genre)will start to seep out onto the paper. It sounds a little cranial, but I think it passes the smell test.

Personally, I love almost any genre of film, depending on quality. I especially love comedies. But I find that despite the fact that usually I can make people laugh in person, I'm like Jay Leno over Dave Letterman. It's my delivery and personality that give me the edge and make people laugh at me. It's when I'm me being me that makes others laugh. It, however, doesn't write terribly well. If I was doing the Dan Aykroyd thing and making Ghostbusters with only a treatment in hand, I might do fine, but I'm not one who can allow for that on a project, so I stay away from comedies unless with someone else to constantly bounce ideas off of.

That being said, I feel more than confident in the realms of action/thriller/crime, because similar beats work for all three, and depending on how they are played out, all can have nearly identical prots.

As a test/challenge to myself, I also enjoy making sci-fi/horror/romance stories, as they as well often have similar styles of beats. If one notices, most science fiction stories that are truly great have a strong "love" element in them, as does horror (think movies like Dark City, Blade Runner, Rosemary's Baby, The Omen to name a few. This might be a sweeping statement, but I tend to enjoy the ones in these two genres that have similar beats to a romance (not a rom-com).

As a challenge as well, I have a teen comedy on my shelf, but down the list, so we'll see if it ever materializes into a full script or just an idea that makes people laugh.

When some producer says "Hey, who do we know who's really good at writing action films with strong women characters?" I want to be the first person they think of.