Writers, male vs. female
Jul. 17th, 2009 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatReading "Exogenesis" - it's A-awesome, BTW - I realized that tie-ins offer readers the unique chance to compare male and female writing. The authors use the same characters, the same setting, the same conditions. My conclusion?
Male writers concentrate on coming up with a unique idea, making their book as action-filled as possible and being thorough in technical babble.
Female writers concentrate on telling a story, on describing what the characters feel, how they see the situation and on staying true to their TV-selves.
You see, male authors are more ready to sacrifice the... character's integrity, if you could say it so, to the plot. Female writers not so much. It's really strange. When you compare, I don't know, "Nightfall" and "Exogenesis": In the former, Sheppard bowed to Carter, took Keller with him to a hostile planet and became a simple plot device, in the latter, Sheppard refused to budge when confronted by Elizabeth. It's these simple things that make or break a book.
And there're are also the emotions. Take for example "Angelus" and "Exogenesis". In the former, even when Sheppard was ready to sacrifice himself to save Atlantis, I didn't actually feel it. In the latter, their plight was not just described, it was felt.
So yeah, some time ago, I would have said that I don't care if a book is written by a man or a woman. But these days, I very much prefer female writing... Though there are exceptions like Josh Lanyon or Mark Del Franco, the thing is, they're both gay 8)
Male writers concentrate on coming up with a unique idea, making their book as action-filled as possible and being thorough in technical babble.
Female writers concentrate on telling a story, on describing what the characters feel, how they see the situation and on staying true to their TV-selves.
You see, male authors are more ready to sacrifice the... character's integrity, if you could say it so, to the plot. Female writers not so much. It's really strange. When you compare, I don't know, "Nightfall" and "Exogenesis": In the former, Sheppard bowed to Carter, took Keller with him to a hostile planet and became a simple plot device, in the latter, Sheppard refused to budge when confronted by Elizabeth. It's these simple things that make or break a book.
And there're are also the emotions. Take for example "Angelus" and "Exogenesis". In the former, even when Sheppard was ready to sacrifice himself to save Atlantis, I didn't actually feel it. In the latter, their plight was not just described, it was felt.
So yeah, some time ago, I would have said that I don't care if a book is written by a man or a woman. But these days, I very much prefer female writing... Though there are exceptions like Josh Lanyon or Mark Del Franco, the thing is, they're both gay 8)
