elisi: Edwin and Charles (Oh dear)
elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote in [personal profile] lirazel 2019-05-19 05:43 pm (UTC)

On paper, other than the every-woman-worth-writing-about-is-super-attractive thing, there is nothing wrong with how he writes the women. But there's just this vibe, and I can't deeply analyze it, because I don't understand where it's coming from or what's creating it, but I can't stop thinking about it.
I suspect the two are related? I've never read him, so are the female characters just shown through the eyes of the main protagonist, or do we get to see how they view the world?

And I never want to give a reader the feeling that he gives me, of wondering what it is that isn't quite right. Of feeling that the writer is at a distance from his female characters in a way he isn't from his male ones.
See this hit me, because my main character is a 15 year old boy and I am... none of those things.

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