Men, Don’t Make These 6 Mistakes When You Write Female Characters
Don’t over-sexualize them
If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when men can’t write female characters.
And when they do it anyway.
It can totally ruin my reading experience, and it automatically brings the book down on my rating scale, even when all the rest is mind-bending and brilliant.
It doesn’t matter if your book is a New York Times Bestseller, if you’ve won the Nobel Prize or if you’re the new Hemingway.
If you commit some of the following mistakes, it means you can’t write characters who represent one half of the human population.
Maybe something worth looking into.
Attractive, sexy, hot
I’ve been reading The Final Minute by Simon Kernick, a British author who writes thrillers.
The book is great. It’s fast-paced, it’s plot-driven, it’s exciting — definitely something I need right now to get myself out of my reading slump.
There’s one thing that keeps bothering me, though. Why is literally every woman in this book described as attractive?
And why does the main character — who’s very morally ambiguous, to be fair, but still — want to sleep with all…
