Comments on: How To Make Dominant Female Characters Like-Able https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 06:20:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 02-28-2019 | The Author Chronicles https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139955 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:03:01 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139955 […] Characters are what keep the readers reading. The Passive Voice says that the emotional arcs of stores are dominated by 6 basic shapes, James Scott Bell reminds us of the importance of bonding character and reader, and Lisa Hall-Wilson has tips on how to make dominant female characters like-able. […]

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139941 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:24:51 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139941 Elizabeth Bennet turned down two proposals--one would have preserved her family's security and home for the future because of the entailment and the other would have given her wealth, though she didn't know how much at that moment--in a time when women in her society couldn't be independent and choose love over marriage. She wanted to marry for love or not at all.

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]]> By: How To Make Dominant Female Characters Like-Able – From the Writers in the Storm Blog | Author Don Massenzio https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139940 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:53:39 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139940 […] Read the rest of this post HERE. […]

]]> By: Lois https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139939 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:10:16 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139939 In my first novel about wildland firefighting, I have an alpha female and alpha male attracted and why they're attracted. It's easy to create conflict with her always telling him she doesn't need rescuing and can handle things on her own. So I used this for the black moment where, if he didn't rescue her, her life would have ended. Helped her growth arc. I love writing alpha females.

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139938 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:10:18 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139938 In reply to Lisa Hall-Wilson.

Thanks for being here! And I like it when you get all geeky. 🙂

]]> By: Lisa Hall-Wilson https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139937 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:06:25 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139937 In reply to H L Wegley.

Every character needs to be well-rounded, have agency, and face overwhelming odds. Period. An alpha character is a particular kind of character, I think. When you look at psychology, there are some interesting traits expressed by an alpha male or female that seem unique.

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139936 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:33:53 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139936 In reply to Julie Glover.

My daughter LOVES Hermione. She was absolutely her favorite character in the series, even though she had a crush on Harry. Emma Watson acted her brilliantly in the movies. And in the final one, when she offers to go to the forest with Harry? Oh man, did I cry.

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139935 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:31:22 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139935 In reply to Laura Drake.

I cried my eyes out in that book because she was never, ever going to be able to change. However, by the end of the book, the reader admired her for that exact tenacity.

]]> By: johntshea https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139934 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:18:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139934 In reply to Lisa Hall-Wilson.

Indeed, they did not relate well in the traditional romantic sense, but were forced into a working relationship with begrudging mutual respect in both movies. And Owen's relationship with Blue was obviously not romantic but much concerned with power.

]]> By: Lisa Hall-Wilson https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/02/how-to-make-dominant-female-characters-like-able/#comment-139932 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:07:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=36598#comment-139932 In reply to johntshea.

Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but I don't think Claire and Owen had a relationship. They tried dating and it ended spectacularly. They just fought and bickered until they had a common problem dinosaur foe and worked together.

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