vhagar's PR manager

people who do a PhD are running from something

there are many villains out there who will try and advise you on how to write a woman (unproblematic, never causing conflict, a pretty ear to listen to the real characters' problems, a good example to an imagined audience of little girls of every age that haven't learned the bliss of silence and obedience yet, happy on the sideline, little to no agency, sometimes with the honour dying to motivate a man, a pleasing set dressing above all else) as if it is an entirely different skillset from writing a Man (complicated, nuanced, multifaceted, a profound reflection of What It Means To Be Human). it is important to identify that many of these half baked creative writing professors with a monetised youtube channel don't see women as fully realised people in their real lives so the woman they want you to write is a pretty doll

you need to pinocchio her right now. you need to give her the curse. you need to make her selfish. you need to make her cruel. you need to make her kind. you need to make her a bad listener. you need to make her a big fat hypocrite. you need to make her a liar. you need to make her tell the harsh truth. you need to make her love conditional. you need to make her love too easily. you need to make her not love at all. you need her to ask 'what's in it for me?' you need to give her convictions. you need to make her ruthless. you need to make her flakey and fickle. you need to make her loyal. you need to make her a traitor. you need to make her loud and quiet and soft and hard. you need to make her say 'no' and mean it. you need to make her a coward. you need to make her the bravest person there is. you need to make her arrogant. you need to make her actions and their consequences have weight in the story. you need to make her indecisive. you need to make her a hulking great monster. you need to give her conflict. you need her to make choices. you need her to make mistakes. you need her to say and do the wrong thing. you need her to not know what to do. you need her to ignore good advice. you need her to give bad advice. you need to make her ruled by her own pride. you need to make her respected in her field. you need to make her sort of a loser. you need to make her a womaniser. you need to make her a child killer. you need to make her a bigot. you need to make us root for her. you need to make us pray for her downfall. you need to make us pity her. you need to make us frustrated with her. you need to make us understand her, yet abhor her. you need to make us tune in next week just to see what she'll do next. you need to make us think about her on our lunchbreak. you need to make her care too much about what people think. you need to make her not give a fuck. you need to make her strong. you need to make her dirty. you need to make her sanitise her hands and sneer after she touches someone. you need to make her manipulative. you need to make her a great shot. you need to make her a terrible one. you need to make her a sex god. you need to make her bad in bed. you need to make her just sort of ok. you need to make her smart. you need to make her an idiot. you need to make her change over the course of the story for better or worse. you need to keep her stuck in her ways. you need to save her. you need to let her tragedy play out. you need to make her want what she doesn't need and need what she doesn't want. you don't have to like her. she is a storytelling device; she is not a person but you need her to make sense as one.

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