Young Writers Society

Well, usually men like stories with blood and explosions and sex. Girls like girly things like pink and love stories and unicorns.

Dude, what is with the generalizations in this thread?

Personally, what makes a book good to me is the writing (including the plot) and the characters, not whether it's "masculine" or "feminine," romance or action. My guess is that many women feel the same.

I agree with bubblewrapped.

And I don't even like pink or unicorns. Ick.
I don't think all of guys are ruled by their hormones either.
I'm sure some of you don't have your minds in the gutter.

But how did this topic become a debate on male vs. female?

I bet theres a vampire in their somewhwre, and you're a twilight fan.(probably)

If you haven't already, you should read Dracula. *That* is a vampire novel worth reading. That's also the form most vampires take in modern-day vampire novels, but most of the time lacking the garlic-weakness (Meaning not Twilight vampires -- that's just one author). One of the bloody/thriller stories I'm reviewing at the moment does involve vampires, but they're the Dracula kind, not the glittery stalker-in-a-good-way romantic vampire as seen in Twilight.

On my being a Twilight fan... neh. I personally don't think the book's worth the attention it's getting from either side, haters or fans. I read the first book before it got insane, thought it was okay, put it down. Haven't read the second or the third. I think there might be a fourth one now? I don't know. Point is, I don't really care.

Males only enjoy romance when it's from a males perspective.

I had a few neighbors over the years that I would trade and swap romance novels with who were guys. Ages ranged from 70 to 14. Most written by a Miss Nora Roberts who only recently started developing her guy characters into something more than a character shell.

Long paragraphs describing how good any character looks is horrible to anyone. Over the top guy characters are equally sickening for us, too, unless we're thirteen years old. We tend to want realistic guys as much as we want realistic girls. Basically? We want realistic characters, which more or less translates into good writing. I think that's true all across the board, for both genders.

However, I will admit. We do fart rainbows and pixie dust.

(Cookies to any who can name who I quote)

Dracula was a good vampire book, can't get into some of the newer one's out and about. Still haven't seen Twilight, but people say it is good...of course these same people also said Saw 3 was good, as well as 4 and neither of them were all that good.

I think I'm a man.....

*checks*

Woah! This thread got super long!
I'm disappointed in you, Melkor =[
Has anybody noticed that many of the boys have like, 200 posts and 12 reviews?
I find that amazing!
How can that be possible for any kind of human being?
Come on now!

I'm probably one of the most extreme examples of that, LLS. I find it hard to motivate myself to critique.

Wow, extreme is right! I only just found that you could post somewhere separately from the reviews!

Has anybody noticed that many of the boys have like, 200 posts and 12 reviews?
I find that amazing!
How can that be possible for any kind of human being?
Come on now!

Another generalisation. Fail.

Agreed.

Also, this thread has gone on way too long.

Someone axe it already.

Haha, I agree with Firestarter and Jiggity.
This thread has gone way off track.
We've gone from No Men In YWS, to
No Smart Boys In The World.
Poor dudes.
*flees from angry mob of girls*

Oh come now.... we all know that whether you like it or not, there is a girly way of writing, and a manly way of writing.


I did not say you could employ whatever one you wanted did I?


I'm just saying that there are so many peices of writing that you pick up and say..



Hmmpph....fangirl..

-puts book down at once-



Of course, is a good story a genderless one?


In my opinion writers should aim to come across as a sprite.

Hell yes you can pour your propaganda on in bucketfulls, just don't explore your sick little fantasies while doing so..


Unless you want to come across as strange...

which I do...

so......

Ever try reading 'Chainfire' by Terry Goodkind? Now that is bad writing. Yuck.

Actually, fangirl writing is very obviously discerned from proper (YWS-esque) writing. For some of the fangirls... most of them give up writing later on. Or should, since putting them and a keyboard together = disaster.

I think that on this site, pretty much nobody is of stereotypical mould.

Now close the subject already!

I keep waiting for a mod to come in with something along the lines of "moved to the debate forum" or "locked"

And. You do all realize that if you stopped posting in it, it'd stop being posted in, right?