As a writer, I spend a lot of time studying storytelling. One of the main takeaways I’ve always gotten from many things I’ve read on storytelling, is that stories have to tell the truth in some way. Usually, these truths feel very personal to the author, which means they also have the chance of feelingContinue reading “Who Tells Your Story? Women in Media”
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When one isn’t enough.
My friends and family have probably gotten a little sick of me asking “How many women are in it?” when they recommend TV shows or movies to me. Trust me, I’m a little tired of it too. Why do I keep asking though? A several years ago I was introduced to the “Bechdel Test” by AlisonContinue reading “When one isn’t enough.”
Well Written Female Characters: A How to Guide, Part 3
Like I mentioned last week, today’s post is going to be about variance and diversity in your female characters personality. Hopefully at this point you have more than one female character in your story, which is really the first step. I know I’ve talked to other writers who sometimes feel like their female characters haveContinue reading “Well Written Female Characters: A How to Guide, Part 3”
Well Written Female Characters: A How to Guide, Part 2
Last time I covered ways to get you started on writing well written female characters. Today I’d like to give you a few more tips and some exercises to help you look critically at the characters you’ve constructed. I’ll get right down to it. 1. Take your female character, and flip her gender, just asContinue reading “Well Written Female Characters: A How to Guide, Part 2”
Well Written Female Characters: A How to Guide, Part 1
Women tend to be vastly underrepresented in many sides of popular media, including video games (a recent study found that only 10-15% of primary and secondary characters were female) and movies (see: Bechdel test). So to me it’s really no wonder that some writers find it difficult to write women that either don’t fall intoContinue reading “Well Written Female Characters: A How to Guide, Part 1”
The Taming of the Muse 