Seriously, men are so full of themselves sometimes. They're like, oh, I don't write female characters because I don't know how, I can't think like a female, games don't need to be about women. Well, why not? Are we so saturated in male story-telling that female perspective is inconceivable? And if there's not much female perspective to compare to ( ( Read more... )

First of all, here's a fabulous quote from The Crimson Petal and the White:"The difference between men and women is nowhere plainer, thinks Agnes, than in the novels they write. The men always pretend they are making everything up, that all the persons in the story are mere puppets of their imagination, when Agnes knows that the novelist has ( Read more... )

I know some of you out there are also writers, so I wanted to discuss a writer issue that's been bugging me for a while. There is a certain view about being a writer I tend to read on the internet a lot from people in forums and communities and the like: "I am not part of my writing. What I write about has nothing to do with me. What my characters ( Read more... )