How Not To Write Female Characters

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Eldonita je 22-a de aŭgusto 2018 de Lucy V Hay.

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Female characters. When fifty per cent of your potential target audience is female, if you’re not writing them in your screenplay or novel? You’re making a BIG mistake!

But how should you approach your female characters? That’s the million-dollar question … After all, women in real life are complex, varied and flawed. Knowing where to start in creating three dimensional female characters for your story is extremely difficult.

So … perhaps it’s easier to figure out how NOT to write female characters?

Script editor, novelist and owner of the UK’s top screenwriting blog www.bang2write.com, Lucy V Hay has spent the last fifteen years reading the slush pile. She has learned to spot the patterns, pitfalls and general mistakes writers make when writing female characters – and why.

In How Not To Write Female Characters, Lucy outlines:

•WHO your character is & how to avoid “classic” traps and pitfalls •WHAT mistakes …

Female characters. When fifty per cent of your potential target audience is female, if you’re not writing them in your screenplay or novel? You’re making a BIG mistake!

But how should you approach your female characters? That’s the million-dollar question … After all, women in real life are complex, varied and flawed. Knowing where to start in creating three dimensional female characters for your story is extremely difficult.

So … perhaps it’s easier to figure out how NOT to write female characters?

Script editor, novelist and owner of the UK’s top screenwriting blog www.bang2write.com, Lucy V Hay has spent the last fifteen years reading the slush pile. She has learned to spot the patterns, pitfalls and general mistakes writers make when writing female characters – and why.

In How Not To Write Female Characters, Lucy outlines:

•WHO your character is & how to avoid “classic” traps and pitfalls •WHAT mistakes writers typically make with female characters •WHERE you can find great female characters in produced and published content •WHEN to let go of gender politics and agendas •WHY female characters are more important than ever

Lucy is on a mission to improve your writing, as well as enable diverse voices and characters to rise to the top of the spec pile.

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Stephanie Jane recenzis How Not To Write Female Characters de Lucy V Hay

Good advice for aspiring authors

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Lucy Hay's How Not To Write Female Characters is only a short book, but one which contains a good number and variety of pointers for aspiring writers. Despite its title, the advice isn't all negative which I appreciated because a long list of Don'ts can be very discouraging! Instead, Hay briefly discusses typical female characterisations from film, television and novels across the past thirty years or so. She shows how our sense of their role has evolved, but also the ways in those roles still stagnate. It is somewhat depressing that such a book should actually be so needed in the 21st century - we've not come so far after all - but, that said, How Not To Write Female Characters is a good thought-provoking discussion starter for writers in all media.

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