I have several stories that are stuck on the part where the man and woman have an interaction. I have no idea what she should say, think, or do. Describing her is easy but developing her personality is impossible. What's to be done?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/menwritingwomen/
>https://www.reddit.com/r/menwritingwomen/
I forgot about this sub lmao, their advice seems to be "write a guy and then ctrl f replace him into a woman"
Write a man then take away reason and accountability
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I miss Jack Nicholson. He made great movies.
just focus on breasts
Damn anon, I have to recommend talking to some females. Wouldn't it be easier just to get rid of her character?
The more I talk to women the less I understand. Nah, her character is central as a symbolic piece. Maybe I could replace her with a statue. She's there because women are really important in stories--just not for their conversation. It's for the themes. So when she absolutely has to say something I get a problem.
Fricking kek
Good advice, thank you.
Don't think. Just FEEL like a woman. Women work based on feefees like Nietzscheans, not by reason or logic.
>The more I talk to women the less I understand. Nah, her character is central as a symbolic piece.
>I don't at all understand the central component of my symbolic piece
Huh, seems like a problem. Seems like you could be symbolically saying some pretty dumb shit if you don't understand your the central phrase.
Lmao maybe, I'm going for man's perception of/relationship to women. I understand that. I just need her to move and say some inane but relevant things, is that too much to ask?
I have heard of this. I'll take note.
>Maybe I could replace her with a statue
kek you really are hopeless aren't you
Anon think of all the great works out there that fail the bechdel test
The women I know very well are nuts, not a good general model imo
It's only suggested as a practice exercise to help you get a feel for something that's currently unknown to you.
It's a good exercise, I'll give it a go
mf is literally Pygmalion
Exactly, yeah. I try to lean into this and tell Pygmalion/Galatea stories.
>Maybe I could replace her with a statue
kek you really are hopeless arent you
Just pretend you're gay and moronic. If you post on IQfy, 90% of the work is done already!
Read Tolstoy.
red head with big lips nice enough for my dick
Read about autism
Read about schizophrenia
Imagine a scale from 1 to 10
1 schizophrenia, 10 is autism
Women are usually 2-3
Men are usually 7-8
Look up extreme male brain theory
Look up extreme female brain theory
probably why I can't seem to get a new girlfriend. can't relate to them.
extreme female brain is BPD, not schizophrenia
the infiltration of this kind of thinking into literature (esp. literary criticism) has been disastrous
Just use your feminine side. Any great writer has to be in touch with the masculine and the feminine
I write women like children trying really hard to be adults and get compliments from b***hes on my female characters
As an exercise try writing some little test scene, perhaps completely unrelated, where the idea is just to imagine a woman you know very well in some unusual circumstances that are entirely unlike her actual life.
My advice is read Fight Club and notice how Chuck wrote Marla
Like this
>she had big ass breasts and shit
>she was suckin on my dick and shit
>she talked too much
That's all
Have you ever met a woman?
As a matter of fact I have
I see
Imagine being really weak and needy like a child, but having a weirdly inflated sense of importance and entitlement, born of a lifetime of basically having had men do things for you.
Imagine not seeing men as men, but more as large, useful dogs, who can do things for you, but who also might rape you. But you aren't NECESSARILY opposed to the fact that they might rape you, as long as you feel you're getting something out of the arrangement.
I gave up. I use AI to write my women. I pretend to be the character the woman interacts with, and let AI act. Nobody can then accuse me of being a sexist or badly writing the woman, because it is based on pattern recognition of real women interactions.
>because it is based on pattern recognition of real women interactions.
>he doesn't know
pretend they are people
Think of a man, then take away reason and accountability.