Welcome to your high fantasy haven! Here, you'll find weekly articles designed to help you improve your writing and interact with us and each other. You'll get input on topics, new friends, and the chance to ask for and give writing advice. This isn...
G'day everyone! Shannon here with another (hopefully) helpful article.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Today's topic will be strong female characters!
This is something I have seen many writers struggle with— myself included, not just in literary fiction, but writers of every category. Whether they're penning a film, video game, comics or anything else in between, it seems that no matter where you look, there's characters who've been created with "strong female" in mind-- so why do so many of them feel... flat?
Let's take a look, shall we?
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
So often in media, I see female characters who are quick to be touted as "strong, empowered women" when in reality, they are barely characters at all.
Whether they're the absolute sexiest person on the planet, so much so, that even the furniture is throwing pick up lines at her, or a hacker running digital circles around scores of government professionalswith her keyboard mastery, we find that despite their skills, they're just not that interesting. They're caricatures, a contorted image with almost no personality outside the singular characteristic the character has been created around.
Now, as the little bold title thingy suggests, most poorly written "SFC's" can be grouped into one of three archetypes that I like to call the Sue, the Sinner, and the Beast.
