Five Things To Avoid With Female Characters by Dragon-FangX, journal
Five Things To Avoid With Female Characters
Becoming more and more absorbed in Lore, I've begun to take stock of certain elements of story telling that I want to avoid when making my stories, because I don't want to fall under many of the same traps that other stories. The most notable is some of the often used tropes we often see in certain series involving women figures, especially given how many I tend to have. This is a list of 5 things I feel are good to avoid where you can of doing to your female character:
~ Give Them Real Armor if They Do Wear Armor ~
This one is a more recent topic after discussion involving Captain Phasma on the Star Wars facebook page. Breast-shaped armor
The Wasteland AKA the MIDDLE by OokamiKasumi, literature
Literature
The Wasteland AKA the MIDDLE
The Trackless Wasteland known as: The MIDDLE
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The middle (of a story) KILLS me. I freeze when I have to decide which way things are going to go, and how, and that happens during the middle for me.
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Middle, middle, middle... It's the Slough of Despond!
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The Middle is where I usually fizzle out.
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The middle is DANGEROUS territory.
Why? Because the Middle of a story is where you have a million-and-one options, a million-and-one directions to choose from, and a million-and-one ways to really sho