More About Writing Women - for my own curiosity. :)

[ficwize]

So, my curiosity knows no bounds. I'm interested to see if my perception is skewed, admitting that my perception is based on a self-selected group of friends and communities on my flist.

So, if you don't mind answering this poll, I'd appreciate it. Also, if you want to pimp it to your flist, I'd be curious to see a large sample of answers.

Thanks!



ETA: Please assume that the "/" mark does not indicate sexual relationships unless otherwise indicated. So if you write a mixture of canon male and canon female characters, please check canon male/canon female. Thanks and sorry for any confusion!

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Comments

[ficwize.livejournal.com]

Thanks for answering the questions anyway! I did worry that I was leaving out too many options, but I figured I'd leave it up to the peson answering to decide how to answer.

You're one of the few people on my flist I would say primarily writes about women (femmeslash or otherwise). You're also one of the few people that I would say writes in fandoms that are primarily about women.

So, it's interesting to me that you don't define yourself that way! I really apprecaite that you took the time to answer the questions the way you did.

(Also, just to be clear here, your fics rock. I get very excited when I see new BSC fics or new Blue Crush fics from you. *grins*)

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I would totally define myself as someone who writes about women (both in my fandom writing and commercial writing), but I'm not sure I'd say my fandoms are primarily about women. Though, that's probably because, even though I say I have no main fandom, I still mentally default to The Lost Boys and tend to forget about all those other fandoms in which I've been writing lately. So you're probably right - I would say BSC and Blue Crush and BtVS are big fandoms of mine which are primarily about women, and my analysis of Fast and the Furious focuses on the women, even if other people see it as a story about the men.

I think of myself as a writer who specifically looks for the women when I want to write in a fandom. I also intentionally write about female characters in my professional work.

All this writing of women has influenced what I read, too. I used to read a lot more boy slash in fandom, and didn't mind reading stories with male narrators in commercial work, but these days, I want women in everything, female narrators, villains, heroes, etc.

Your poss is really interesting, and is making me think, which I enjoy. Thanks.

[ficwize.livejournal.com]

Your post is really interesting, and is making me think, which I enjoy. Thanks.

Thank you for participating! I found your comment about your default setting to be particularly enlightening. I originally came to fanfiction through X-men and it was my deep and abiding love for Iceman that did it. So, I wonder if my perception of X-men being predominantly male, despite having so many female characters, is a left over from that.

*ponders*

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's an interesting thought. I came into online fandom through Willow/Angel in BtVS, but then spent so much time in The Lost Boys, where there are pretty much two female characters with lines, so I'm pretty sure that influenced how I view my writing. Not to mention, I had to work so hard in order to write female characters, from giving non-speaking characters speaking roles to writing original female characters, so I don't really look at my fandoms as female-centric. Huh.