glutton
Inkling
Inspired from the male vs female thread, but not exactly the same. Do you feel that there's a certain something about some writers' style that makes you really feel and believe the warrior-ness of their warrior characters, and if so what is it? To me most writers (male and female) fall somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, their warrior characters are serviceable but don't necessarily convey it in a way that fires the blood like the best do. As I mentioned in the other thread Donna Gillespie does this really well, her main character Auriane just oozes warrior-ness and comes across as a total badass and seriously legit fighter; another example of a writer who's good at this would be Elizabeth Moon, or on the male side David Gemmell (of course). OTOH for me a counterexample would be someone like Sarah Douglas, on the back of one of her books her MC Axis is billed as a 'great warrior' but when I read it it didn't come across to me at all, and IIRC his one major fight in the book is mostly off panel and ends in like a paragraph or too... I sadfaced so hard after finishing the book, thinking 'don't sell your character as a warrior if you don't know what the heck you're doing!' and never picked up another book of hers again.
What do you think it is that makes the difference between the warrior characters of some writers' feeling of 'legit-ness' and others' non-legitness, if you've noticed such?
What do you think it is that makes the difference between the warrior characters of some writers' feeling of 'legit-ness' and others' non-legitness, if you've noticed such?