pondering heroines
Jul. 22nd, 2011 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestDay 27: Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?
At my computer, and I very rarely write by hand these days. Only when I've turned everything off and gone to bed and am struck with something I must write. I have an idea "The First Step" may have been generated that way.
My Boy and I were talking earlier today about fantasy novels, which he has been devouring at a great rate lately. I didn't have much to contribute, being as how I have not been reading published fiction in any meaningful way for ages. But I was very interested that he noted most of the books he's read lately have female heroes - protagonists, perhaps I should say. And, that the one he'd read most recently with a male protagonist was so boring he could hardly get through it. (I don't know what proportion of his reading has been female authors, but that could well be relevant.)
I muttered something about how women characters could be more interesting than men in the same circumstances, but I didn't have a lot to go on as I don't know what he's been reading. But have any of you noticed this?
For a bonus, anyone got any recs for him?
At my computer, and I very rarely write by hand these days. Only when I've turned everything off and gone to bed and am struck with something I must write. I have an idea "The First Step" may have been generated that way.
My Boy and I were talking earlier today about fantasy novels, which he has been devouring at a great rate lately. I didn't have much to contribute, being as how I have not been reading published fiction in any meaningful way for ages. But I was very interested that he noted most of the books he's read lately have female heroes - protagonists, perhaps I should say. And, that the one he'd read most recently with a male protagonist was so boring he could hardly get through it. (I don't know what proportion of his reading has been female authors, but that could well be relevant.)
I muttered something about how women characters could be more interesting than men in the same circumstances, but I didn't have a lot to go on as I don't know what he's been reading. But have any of you noticed this?
For a bonus, anyone got any recs for him?