/lit/ - Literature

>>20993148
journalism is a meme career populated by 21 year old dykes who write about patriarchry and why clouds are racist. the amount of journalists who make an actual living writing about real news are very few. tech writing is based, I do it for a living. it isn't the most lucrative job but it pays all my bills and I only actually work about 20 hours a week.

where do fantasies come from? I talk to a pretty girl, then an hour later I'm thinking about what it would be like if we dated, what if we got married and had kids, what our home life would be like. why does this happen? any psychology books that explore this?

>>19295568
Automation has existed for thousands of years. The industrial revolution has been far less radical and far less detrimental to the West than the death of Tradition™.

>>19170954
its sad that people dont feel love any more. I hope the world can find its soul again.

>>18938425
It's even worse than D&D lol.
>>18938624
Yeah one of the main characters being a huge cuck was a turn off. Also the entire plot is just the crusades but with magic. Very uninspired. Atheists should stick to writing sci fi and leave fantasy to the Christians.

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>>18488729
That's what reality is for women, though.

>>18373861
Writing user manuals for industrial equipment. The problem is that it's a very specific type of tech writing so if I ever get laid off idk what I'd do lol.

Should every man have his own personal literary canon?

>>11662016
>Any more details?
In short, the female character is convincingly faking her love for a man she feels can help many people if he keeps doing what he's doing. She's his inspiration, and reason for moving forward in life. She's afraid that if she were to leave him, he'd lose the spirit and become apathetic, so she stays with him because in her own words "he need me, and the world needs him". Basically, it's a form of sacrifice.
>Any female test reader opinions?
Not yet, but I'll be sending the scenario to a few of them this week.
>And focusing too much on her tits keeps you from it while you could've been writing this character, who also happens to be a woman.
Again with the egalitarianism. The point I'm going for is that males and females have different ways of sacrificing themselves for a higher purpose, and I need this character to make a feminine sort of sacrifice. I can't make her a warlord, or an ass-kicking vigilante, or even a successful politician, because I believe all these paths, while not necessarily unachievable for a woman, require her to adopt an inherently male character based on aggression and competitiveness, both of which I found to be atypical, and even unnatural, in females (save for you caricature feminists, who don't really succeed much in these regards anyway). I am not interested in writing a woman who's only strong and admirable because she's imitating men; I want her to be strong and admirable in ways that are inherently female. The scenario above is one such case, as I doubt it would be at all viable if the genders were reversed.
>Why would female readers treat her any different than male readers?
Because female readers will, hopefully, be interested in seeing a female character in a genuinely female struggle, as opposed to her attempts at being more man-like, examples of which have been saturating the market for the last fifty years.

As for the remainder of your post, I believe I already explained myself. I am aware that my personal ideal of a woman is not a popular one, so I am attempting to use a more acceptable ideal, one more women would be able to appreciate and aspire to, thus making the female character more sympathetic to them. Yes, I could make her a mouthpiece of my own twisted views, but that would just make her a universally hated character. Look, I can separate myself from my writing. I want to write an interesting, compelling character, one with whom I might even disagree with, but one that would appeal to a wider audience of rational, reflective women who are willing to embrace their femininity, instead of rejecting it as taught by the left-wing media.

Lastly, on interviewing females. I'd say I know about 30 of them on a level personal enough to discuss their ideals with me in a serious manner, and I've even talked to a few of them already. But like I said previously, most of them admitted to never having thought much about what they're striving to be. So here I am, at a loss.