So there ARE people here who didn't like it. The other day I was at a party and I heard someone say to his friend something along the lines of "Man, you can't go wrong with Game of Thrones, there's tits, there's action, awesomeness, more tits..."
Needless to say, that doesn't really sell it to...
Why discredit something just because it has a certain trait? For me, the first version flows more and is more expressive, it says more about the person who's talking.
Aside from the word 'readers' being too general, it could be possible that writers and novelists perceive characters and how well they are done differently to other readers. Which, sadly, pretty much makes all our answers redundant. It's hard to be objective about your own work too. I'm with...
I found that article incredibly interesting, because there are a lot of feminists who argue that it's actually wrong to try 'make a man out of a women', that making female characters to have 'masculine' characteristics is faux-feminism. They say that rather than seeing the inherent values of...
That doesn't seem to fair to me. What about little girls reading books then? Do you think they'd relate better to a heroine, of which there are usually less? I'm female and I related to Harry Potter and other male MCs just fine. It's normal for young boys to relate to heros but then it also has...
You're quite right of course. Everyone knows what they prefer in a story. Asking how something 'should' be is just a way to open a discussion about it. I struggle with it too. Not because I write gory scenes in detail, but because most of my writing would come under a YA heading except for the...