There's a great post by Sherwood Smith about that up at Book View Cafe [link]
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
hippocampus - May 03, 2012 6:52:43 am PDT #5291 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
Burrell - May 03, 2012 6:59:33 am PDT #5292 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ah yes Toddson, I believe that's what Suela meant by having the female POV figure articulating the male gaze.
Laura - May 03, 2012 7:30:25 am PDT #5293 of 6690
Our wings are not tired.
Gosh, don't we all admire our stunning physical attributes in the mirror on a regular basis?
I generally find any excessive physical descriptions of characters annoying. It isn't a big part of getting to know them unless a physical characteristic relates to their motives or nature. But nothing bugs more than repeating the same description. Ha, to repeat myself from above.
I blame the drugs.
erikaj - May 03, 2012 7:58:55 am PDT #5294 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't believe I have stunning attributes.
Laura - May 03, 2012 8:21:49 am PDT #5295 of 6690
Our wings are not tired.
Well you do, but I think I have only met one or two women that would actually gaze at themselves and mentally focus on the list of quality attributes. More are likely to zero in on their uneven eyebrows or some flaw. I only think I have seen this method of description a few times and it does cause me, as the reader, to think about the clumsy writing rather than the character. A character randomly noting their jeans making their butt look good or bemoanIng a physical flaw in a mirror wouldn't give me pause at all.
erikaj - May 03, 2012 8:31:31 am PDT #5296 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, okay, there is an occasional few minutes a year where everything falls into line, and I might be thinking "Wow, looking AND feeling pretty good today..who knew?" but most days I'm wondering if it's too late to get braces, or what's going on with my crazy hair or sun-phobic complexion.
Laura - May 03, 2012 8:47:22 am PDT #5297 of 6690
Our wings are not tired.
Ha, well I think your hair looks soft and touchable. Also your fingers would make hand models jealous. But I shouldn't say that because I wouldn't want to cause blushing and red blotchiness to ruin the overall image.
sumi - May 03, 2012 12:46:46 pm PDT #5298 of 6690
Art Crawl!!!
Kickstarter for a feminist speculative anthology. (Link to Tor.com article - the Kickstarter link is in the article. They need to raise the funds by May 31st.)
Allyson - May 14, 2012 11:12:02 am PDT #5299 of 6690
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Does anyone have time to beta or proof 1500 words? It's an essay on Adam Yauch/Beasties.
P.M. Marc - May 14, 2012 11:48:37 am PDT #5300 of 6690
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
When do you need it back by? I should have some time today.