You know the main 'difference' between male/female authors that I've noticed.  Well other than that like 90+ percent of all romance authors are female.  Is when it comes to military sci-fi.  Now I'm not saying that female authors can't write good military slant space opera or out and out military sci-fi.  But 'in general' except for female authors that have been in the military they don't seem to do bugs-battleships and blaster-fire as good as the men in my experience.

I generally attribute this to the same reason most of the romance authors are female.  People write what they know and they write what they like.  And 'most' but not all women tend to like the romance/relationship drama and 'most' but not all men tend to enjoy random shoot'em up's and gratuitous violence.

That's not to say there aren't good mil-space opera and mil-sci-fi out there written by the girls.  Elizabeth moon, a former marine, writes a kick ass miltary slanted space opera Trading in Danger and the Vatta War series.  Or Louis McMaster Bujold with the Miles Vorkosogain books, I tend to complain in Bujold that her books are all able to be stand alone novels insteads of epic series builds but that's a complaint that has nothing to do with the cool battles and politics and action in it.  But on the whole gunning down the aliens and wracking up the body count or alternately crushign the enemy fleets and increasing the number of warships under your control via up close and personal boarding actions just don't 'seem' to be the girl's cup of tea.

Just like, you know, I'd probably need a lot of help if I was trying to become the next great romance break out author.  Nothing's impossible if you want to put in the time but... if you aren't loving it why?


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I haven't noticed that.  I do know that female authors 'tend' to do more relationship stuff than male authors, or at least go in way deeper on it than that guys would/do and that they 'rarely' do so without a smorgass board of potential relationships thrown into the blender.  Then the book ooh's and ahh's as we watch to find out which color that blenderized smorgass board eventually settles down into.

As for violence in relationships.... hmm.  I mean I have noticed that there are a lot of books where the MC's just can't seen to stop themselves from hanging around with 'dangerous' side characters that are destined to treat them poorly if they, as they inevitably do, get too close to the MC.  Times where I'm talking to the screen saying, 'just say no' and 'walk away now please' but they inevitably don't.

I mean if I'm looking at it from a 'male' character or my own personal viewpoint and I have this hot *itch of a vampire that is twice as strong as I am, has political power, and is just itching to sink her fangs into me, in multiple meanings of the phrase, then I'm out of there.  Maybe I hang in there for 'one' book to free my family but after that we're off like buckshot, out of the country out to the tropics where the sun shines more than anywhere else if necessary.  No blood bondage for me, thanks but no thanks.  But for the girl characters there seems to be this irresistable attraction to hot dangerous and fangy.

You know you want to play with fire, I'm not going to be as upset about the weeping and sobbing that eventually results as I am from some random person dragged off the street.  For the latter I'll go to war.  For the former?  I guess I'll file a court case and move out of the danger zone.  It follows her home that's another issue.  But you know what I don't have any interest in it as a reader or a potential MC.


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That's great meg!  You can't write if you don't have ideas, or at least you can't write very well.  Take that creativity by the horns and ride it girl!   Go!  Go!  Go!



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I'll just add that throwing in real life problems and situations is all well and good, do it by all means.

Poking fun at things can be good too done right.  I just try to make a point not to be out there willfully and beligerently sacrificing anyone's sacred cows.