I'm so glad to read this. I'm writing a fantasy novel for the first time, coming out of the romance genre. This is a straight fantasy and my protagonist is female. All I do is think about this issue. How to get my heroine out of the *glass coffin* without making her the *wicked witch* which would be the course most women writers take in order to avoid the labels women writers fear (gender issues to a degree). I suppose coming out of romance, my heroine should avoid love affairs. But that's a cheat too.
However, I feel obligated to write better women, after years of writing Cinderella tales. I am not interested in Anita Blake clones. Being able to kick, kiss, and kill as good as any man is another cheat and just as phony as the Cinderella tale.
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Date: 2006-07-06 05:48 pm (UTC)However, I feel obligated to write better women, after years of writing Cinderella tales. I am not interested in Anita Blake clones. Being able to kick, kiss, and kill as good as any man is another cheat and just as phony as the Cinderella tale.
Keep writing on this...