/lit/ - Literature

>>20756887
Reading female characters by female authors is a good way to pick up on it, I always recommend Eudora Welty's short stories but it may be better to look in your genre if there is one. I like these tips on writing men and women from Writer's Digest. It's presented as things you can adjust from your default behavior:
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/writing-gender-specific-dialogue
>Check for advice: women tend to sympathize rather than give advice
>Check for bragging: women tend to self-deprecate rather than brag
>Check for aggressiveness: women tend to be indirect rather than direct
>Check for details: women notice style
>Check for emotions: women tend to be expressive but hesitate to express anger
>Check for obliviousness: women tend to pay attention to non-verbal language and maintain eye contact
As for other social expectations and behavior of women to women and women to men, that's something else.

>>20598034
A southern gothic drama between a married couple set in a utopian end-times. The setting is idyllic and not chrome or robotic.
The husband lives in resignation with civilization and seeks a reason to not participate in a world that provides everything for him except self-actualization. Instead, he begrudgingly toils like his father did, striving for satisfaction. The wife exalts herself and goads the husband to follow suit.
Not based on mydiarydesu, but the yearning the man is designed around was something my father always used to tell me, "I'm never going to be poor again."

I write like Flannery O'Connor because I'm insane in the membrane but I admire the subtleties of Eudora Welty a lot more.

>>20446113
I pay it no mind because I've already succeeded in another career in my life. Not everyone's career looks the same and a lot of writers come from different backgrounds. Things like that and deterministic ngmi drivel don't demoralize me, I've got enough confidence and wherewithal to see through it. Sure life is about timing and chance but if you have to tell a story you should tell your story the best you can.

Wrote 6k words today on a new project that will probably be a novella. Also set a date with an old crush I thought I'd never see again. Best day ever.

>>19758929
Something creative and new just requires a mix of familiar and unfamiliar. Authors have unique voice. You won't tell it the way someone else will, it won't sound the same. Don't limit your potential based on what gets published right now.
In fact, I'd say many people around the world are shocked and perspectives are changing dramatically this very generation. I think capturing that drama, any way you'd like to tell it, is worth it and fiction is due for some upheaval as authors grow frustrated, as you are, as people pretend that the world hasn't changed. Just how the modernists and post-modernists were reacting to the world they were in, you can do that as well.

Read every day, even if it's just one short story.
Write every day. An order of magnitude over 1000 words is good.
Don't spend too much time on the outline, and don't spend to much time on the same chapter. Impetus is powerful. The sooner you get all the chapters written, the sooner you can edit them to unify the whole thing.
Learn more about how stories are crafted. Come to writing general /wg/ and look at links in the OP (such as Story Genius). First tip for you: for novels, you need to understand your character motivations.
Learn how to employ literary devices, there's a lot of them so it's up to your style.
Still give time to live your life and reflect.
You don't have to commit to a style or genre starting out. Explore your writing voice and you may find where it fits best after some time.

>>19393383
Yeah go ahead. I was taking a lunch break and just finished baking biscuits..