Reconsidering

I just made private a post I made an hour or so ago about male guardian impulses and Wolfling's perceptions of them. The comments I received made me realize that I needed to think the issues through a bit more deeply.

There is definitely a need to be aware of -- and resist -- a cultural tendency to characterize a young woman's sexuality as a commodity to be guarded and regulated by males. HOWEVER, there is also lot to be said for knowing that you are cared for and there are others who are willing to come to your defense if needed, whether that defense is done by men or women.

Hopefully I'll have the time and energy to explore both of these ideas a bit more systematically in the relatively near future.

Thanks again to those who shared their thoughts with me. . .


I've disabled comments because I do not want to engage further in conversation about this until I've had a chance to post a more thorough exploration of these ideas.

Writer's Block: What is your muse?

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Thinking about how others will react to my fiction is the worst thing I can do to myself when writing. I completely shut down the creative process on my novel because I stopped writing from my gut and started thinking too much about appealing to a hypothetical future audience.

Getting input from friends didn't help either. At first it was fun engaging my friends in the story, seeing their enthusiasm about it, enjoying their ideas -- but over time I found myself struggling with one or two of them about their interpretations of certain characters.