I'm sorry, but these "writing issues" represent a character flaw in the *writers* that desperately needs to be addressed off the page before they ever sit down to write.

EIemilyinkpen.bsky.socialOct 3, 2024 10:09am

I see loads of posts highlighting what guys do wrong when writing female characters, but none offering solid guidance. So I wrote a blog. Chaps, please read. I hope it’s useful 👇 www.emilyinkpen.com/blog/writing...

Writing Female Characters - Things to Remember — Emily Inkpen

I see a lot of posts highlighting examples of male writers getting descriptions of female characters wrong. Of male writers falling back on tired sexist tropes that place women as props in the male MC...

It is sad how many of these can be short handed as “imagine women are also people”