Then, if most fanfiction writers are female and actually queer, this would mean "women not exclusively (or at all) attracted to men". If that was true... wouldn't most of the pairings be between female characters? I have lesbian friends. They don't care one bit about gay-male porn....
making some judgment calls. For example, the main character ofMythago Woodby Robert Holdstock is listed in most summaries as “a military vet” – but that’s not an occupation per se. On reading further, I found that he had the wherewithal to bum around France for a year without ...
Kowal went on to say: “Seeing how the field has changed gives me perspective on the future that I’m living in and, hopefully, will help women writing today continue to destroy science fiction for subsequent generations of writers.” Even more approval flows to us writers of utopian sci-fi...
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(Great motto for all creative types, particularly writers.) I watched them get these crazy ideas that no one ever tried, but they’d just run with it and turn it into something inspiring. Fear of failure was either non-existent or unseen. Whenever I’ve exhibited the least bit of ...
When writers deride romance readers for their reading choices, their argument becomes meaningless, and here’s why: not all romance books are the same. When someone insists that there is a formula for romance fiction, it’s clear that they haven’t bothered to look at any serious analyses ...
Modern writers/editors deal with this issue by writing paragraphs all the way up to entire chapters in one POV only. Then when the POV switches to another character, the first paragraphs are a recap of the previous action as viewed from someone else. The rules are that you can never, ever...
Keep in mind, the opening of the game had the main character clearly shocked and surprised at receiving an invite to the reading of a will.a.) so that whole opening section was the player lying to themselves somehow?b.) also how did the player know things would play out the way they ...
For example, to Victorians the literary stock character of the fallen woman was generally used to illustrate the perils of breaking convention—her dangerous and tempting presence testified to the moral importance of Victorian social and sexual norms. In The French Lieutenant’s Woman, however, ...
The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal into the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. An influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print. . . . ...