{"id":20608,"date":"2025-02-08T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=20608"},"modified":"2025-02-08T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:24:27","slug":"how-to-not-write-women-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/how-to-not-write-women-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"How to (not) write women (and men)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ue3G51hpLSk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This guy has an interesting YouTube channel. He does mostly writing videos, and his advice is better than most of the stuff out there. I think he&#8217;s a literary agent and a non-fiction author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, watching this one was a real throwback to my days as a newbie writer, when I made some of these mistakes and had to work on how I wrote female characters. I agree with most of his advice, especially that you should avoid writing a &#8220;strong female character&#8221; (my words, not his) that is really just a man with boobs. There is way too much of that these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments are also really interesting, though apparently the discussion got super heated. Which is typical of course. I miss the internet of 15 years ago. It was a much friendlier place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, he also did a video for women trying to write men, and the mistakes they often make. It&#8217;s hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tykenn5JUx0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy has an interesting YouTube channel. He does mostly writing videos, and his advice is better than most of the stuff out there. I think he&#8217;s a literary agent and a non-fiction author. Anyways, watching this one was a real throwback to my days as a newbie writer, when I made some of these&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/how-to-not-write-women-and-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to (not) write women (and men)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1822,1823,631,134],"class_list":["post-20608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookfox","tag-john-matthew-fox","tag-strong-female-characters","tag-writing-advice","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5mo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20609,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions\/20609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}