You know the "absent woman" argument? (At its best in the bit of the Pooh Perplex where he redefines Winnie the Pooh to be all about Christopher Robin's absent mother.) I was thinking that Methony is pretty damn absent and also in the running for "worst mother of all time".
And looking from that, lots of your women are inscrutable to your POV characters, which is fine, but... when it comes to comfort zones and people unlike you, that's interesting.
I think when I go to that bit of my head where characters come from, it's all mist and shadows, and I can shape that in different ways, to start with anyway, and there are easy ways and hard ways and it's tempting to go for the easy ways because they're natural and have the story nature.
I was going to say I write mostly women, but I'm not sure (Sulien books are female POV, Prize is two M two F, T&C is, um, female-omni, I think more female than male mini-POVs, Farthing is one of each, Ha'Penny ditto, Lifelode is two F one M and female-omni) I think though I tend to come up with more female characters because they're more interesting to me because I read the default narrative and ask where the women are, because where the women are is a crack, and stories happen in the cracks.
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And looking from that, lots of your women are inscrutable to your POV characters, which is fine, but... when it comes to comfort zones and people unlike you, that's interesting.
I think when I go to that bit of my head where characters come from, it's all mist and shadows, and I can shape that in different ways, to start with anyway, and there are easy ways and hard ways and it's tempting to go for the easy ways because they're natural and have the story nature.
I was going to say I write mostly women, but I'm not sure (Sulien books are female POV, Prize is two M two F, T&C is, um, female-omni, I think more female than male mini-POVs, Farthing is one of each, Ha'Penny ditto, Lifelode is two F one M and female-omni) I think though I tend to come up with more female characters because they're more interesting to me because I read the default narrative and ask where the women are, because where the women are is a crack, and stories happen in the cracks.
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