New post on Mrshawking.com -- A female power fantasy

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New blog entry on mrshawking.com!

In the interest of artistic honesty, I feel I have to cop to the fact that in some ways, the character of Mrs. Hawking is a power fantasy. Specifically, she is a personal one for me, embodying many of the qualities that I happen to find particularly empowering.

I'm not troubled by this. I think there should be characters that serve as power fantasies for women of the sort that men have in abundance. The trouble, however, is in not allowing such a character to fall into the category of Mary Sue. The problem with power fantasy characters is that if you make them TOO powerful, TOO aspirational and awesome and amazing in every way, then they stop being believable or real. So I need to make sure that when I write Mrs. Hawking, she has real flaws to her to make her a truly complex main character.

Read more of "A female power fantasy" on the website!

Comments

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I agree about the importance of female power fantasies. Especially since I'm so used to reading SFF, which tends to be rich in male power fantasies, but less so for female characters. Personally, I'd like to read more stuff like this.