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On The Gender Of Authors And Their Characters - The Worm Hole

I've been keeping track of the books I read monthly including the male/female author ratio, and it's heavily skewed towards females.

Are people ever turned off by how male characters are portrayed by ...

There are a lot of discussions on how male authors portray female characters in a one-dimensional manner but I find female authors also portray a hyper ...

Which gender is better at writing characters that are the opposite ...

No. It can possibly depend on your gender. For some male writers, I've heard female characters are harder to depict than male characters ...

Women Writing Men Badly: Guys Tease Male Romance Tropes

Men are calling out the things female authors get so wrong when writing male characters in their books, and some of these are surprising.

Male authors writing female characters vs ... - A Forum of Ice and Fire

I do think female authors tends to be slightly better at writing male characters than the reverse. It's not a BIG differenc, and there's enough people who fall ...

The Truth About Male Writers And Awful Female Characters

So, before anyone gets their panties in a bunch … Yes, yes some male writers are GREAT at writing female characters. When male writers dominate ...

Pitfalls of writing a main character of different gender to the author ...

Many writers can write from both male and female perspectives (many can't). The main difference is in the narrative focus.

Study finds that males are represented four times more than females ...

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have utilized AI technologies to conclude that male characters are four times more prevalent in literature ...

Male Authors vs. Female Authors | Kindle Forum

One of the biggest differences is in how they develop characters. Women tend to really get into the "feelings" of their characters where male ...

Why men can - and must - write women - The Bookseller

If women authors write lead characters who are both male or female ... Sebastian Faulks argued that he couldn't describe his female characters ...

Robin Antalek on Flipping the Gender Voice: When Women Write ...

If we are honest about the breakdown of male and female characters, at the very core there would have to be the belief that the memorable ...

Writing Female Characters: A Guide for Male Writers

Is the primary topic of conversation among your female characters always men? Do they have no agency of their own and simply go with whatever ...

Yes, Male Writers CAN Write Fantastic Female Characters

Every time male writers come up with a duff description for a female character, there's lots of calls to 'stop' men from writing. 99.999999999% ...

Why Are Men So Terrible at Writing Female Characters? - K.L. Kranes

Self-description: When male writers try to write a woman giving a physical description of her own body, they generally write it from a male ...

why male authors write about male characters and why female ...

I don't think this is true at all actually. While it may be easier for authors to write main characters of their own gender, I don't think that a good author ...

Novels written by men with female characters that aren't crap?

(I just looked through my last few years of books read on Goodreads and realised I read vanishly few male authors. Luckily there are lots of ...

Men on women: male writers and the 'complex female character'

Unfortunately, the sexualisation, objectification, and general mistreatment men put their female characters through is not confined to ...

Choose your own gender: An interdisciplinary approach to studying ...

For example Hogan (1994) stated that 'other things being equal, women tend to identify with female characters; men with male characters' (p. 258). Kropp and ...

The Mixed Results of Male Authors Writing Female Characters

Authors of both genders have long experimented with narrators and protagonists of the opposite sex—but there's still debate as to whether either ...

Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and Their Male ...

In re-examining these male characters across literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of 'Who has the authority to create a female ...