RE: Quix's Writing Samples And Other Stuff (Comments Welcome)
I'm bored! Slow Friday afternoon at work. I work in a sales orientated area, but not in sales, so how busy I am depends on the sales team. I love my job, pretty much because I'm my own boss, and need not take directions from anyone (which, to dramatically understate things, is something that doesn't agree with me; and even less with the person attempting to give me directions), but when it's quiet, its not the most intellectually stimulating, which is one of the reasons I turned to writing. Composing each and every post, for any story, is a challenge, and one I enjoy.
However, it's been pretty quiet on that front this week as well. Most of my partners are busy with college, exams or other life issues. I also had to drop a roleplay yesterday, which is something I always hate doing, but I wasn't sure where it was at, and had totally lost my muse. However, as I always attempt to do, it was done with respect, and we remain friends - will likely try again when time permits. On the plus side, it appears I've picked another up, which should be fun.
Another thing I've realised more and more lately - which has nothing to do with domination or submission - is just how difficult it is to find female writers who will portray a character with her own motivations, or independent agency, in a story. (For doing so, I owe my current partners a huge debt of gratitude). As I responded with, to a comment on one my threads yesterday, the majority of requests I receive from those willing/wanting to write a female character with an independent will and autonomous motivations, are from male writers. Whilst I appreciate the approaches, my preference is to write against females as to do otherwise defeats the very purpose of my requests.
Much in the same way that I think that reluctance/unwillingness/incapability of females to write independent beings, with their own motivations/goals/desires, perpetuates gender stereotypes, so do I think that female writers who feel the need to switch to a male character to play a 'dominant, initiator, or secure in their own skin' role, and male writers who need switch to females to play 'naïve, innocent or submissive' roles, only bolster the same stereotypes; not to mention the "male = perpetrator and intellectually superior, female = helpless victim and intellectually inferior", mentality; and continues to maintain nothing but a singular creative perspective.
And that's without even getting into the predictability inherent in constantly playing archetype against archetype, and the lessening of story possibilities; which the writing of characters with conflicting internal motivations, or those playing against type, has to offer up. This is fiction, and creative writing. Why?
What else? I think a lady at work is attempting to turn me into an alcoholic. Every time I agree to pay an advance on her commissions, I receive a bottle of liquor. I now have five unopened bottles of bourbon, and two of vodka, sitting at home waiting to be drunk. I tried refusing once; but that's more hassle than accepting (not that I tried too hard). Anyways, I think the price of buying me a bottle is a small one to pay; if I said no, she'd most likely be forced to reveal to her husband exactly how much had been lost at the casino.
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