Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

A day late but oh well. There was all the coming home trauma yesterday so....

This past week was more about going everywhere with family than writing. That said I got almost 5,800 words done for my original fiction, more if you count fanfic.

There were good things happening. My first readers for the homosexual (still unnamed) BDSM story had some very good suggestions. Also on the way down here the space (still unnamed) opera told me pretty much the rest of the plot including another betrayal I wasn't expecting (go figure)

Here's another blog about writing the trials of writing a good heroine. The author makes a point that it's often easier to write from a male pov and honestly i agree. I realized on the drive home that my two romance/erotica stories i'm writing (including the one that just sold) are written from a male pov.

63681 / 100000 words. 64% done!

Comments

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Heh! I enjoyed that blog entry. She's right--Gone With the Wind probably wouldn't be published today.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i have to agree

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

This is why I'm glad I write lesbian characters for a lesbian audience. They're much more sympathetic to flawed, interesting (anti-)heroines, whether those female characters are gay or straight themselves.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

interesting. I admittedly haven't read much lesbian fiction (mostly because I think the writers i read tend to the gay male side of things).

This was always my problem with C.J. Cherryh's females. I never saw them as strong. I saw them as bitchy. I rather despaired of finding a strong female who didn't seem like a rabid dog

ETA - things got better in the 90's.Scully, Buffy, Eames (L&O CI) to name a few

[rahirah]

I seriously don't understand why people say it's so hard to write women... especially when it's women saying it. :/

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm realizing more and more i do not like writing women. Looking back at my peak Buffy days, I always wrote Spike, Giles, Angel anyone but Buffy. The only story I've ever told from strictly a woman's pov was Machiavelli Moon.

Most authors I know can't seem to get women down right, they're just like the article said, bitchy or weak, or at least they are in the mystery genre though it it slowly changing