I have to get this out of me. Plus stuff linked below that I enjoyed.
With YA:
- Love Triangles
- Self Insert "For the Reader to Take its Place" Protagonists
- Not Like Other Girls. GTFO, just make a character dammit. But it gets molded by levels of wish fulfillment, power fantasy, which turns into Sue/Stu mashups if not handled properly.
Erotica:
- Dont turn an Urban Fantasy like Early Anita Blake into an STD fuck fest.
- If people make fun of men writing about boobs and butts Ill make fun of women going all super sized dick member monsters ala Anita Blake. No one's dick is over a foot in length. Not possible.
- More people should fade to black. I know I will with Uplift Protocol
- Most Erotica by Women focus mostly on IKEA level Sex. Its not alluring whatsoever.
- At least the Harem Erotica to Men have some sort of plot attached.
As long as a story has likable protagonists, an interesting setting, even with some aspects I don't personally agree with, then I'll give it a look.
Unless its pedo shit, nuke that from orbit. Nuke Anita Blake from Orbit as well. Anita of Book 1-4 would be horrified at what her later self would become. If you want to make a smut series, do that from the onset.
Being sensual is different from IKEA junk. So if you have a character being a femme fatal to get things, that I can understand. The Pulps had that plenty of times. Even stuff like Basic Instinct. I can understand. Because even Total Recall had that with the women in spades. Thing is, those movies knew what deadly women really were and a woman vs woman fight is more fair. They are each in the same weight class.
Sci fi can negate some physical issues of men vs women but sometimes its just more satisfying to see the good woman vs the evil one and good fucking bitch-slaps the evil out of the other.
Links:
Edit: OMG, the lesbo romance series was written by a guy and I loved it to bits. Turns out Mia Archer is his pen name. Nice. See? Men can write women just fine. CJ writes awesome women too. In fact all the stuff listed above does well. Go tip them coffees.
Twitter Thread: Here
