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[dolari]

Grah, and looking over the bios, I'm finding I've fallen into another trope of mine I've been trying to get out of.

My stuff is very female-oriented. When I do have male characters, they end up being bad guys, jerks, or stupid. This isn't intentional, iit just happens. I've tried to even get out of that trope, and failed at it.

"Ken" in Closetspace was supposed to be ag ood guy, but he ended up being a doof. Iskander was meant to be a tragic honorable guy. Instead he's just kind of bull-in-a-china-shopping his way through his story, leaving Andrea to just hang around and be told "Stay Back." Even Michael, who was meant to be a sympathetic character comes across as Creepy now.

Now with Genevieve, Bob comes across as a doof, Cheng as unreliable and flighty and Lyndon as an Angry Mr. Spock.

I need to try to make them less stereotypically (for my writing) Angry Guys.

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Still, it does seem fairly routine for characters to head their own way, whatever the writer may have in mind for them.. perhaps they'll surprise you again? The bias you speak of, mm..I suppose all I'd suggest is discussing the syndrome with other writers and comic creators, although I imagine the solutions that'll work for you are likely to be of your own devising, ultimately.