WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT FROM MEN | 2007-01-31
OK, that's not a profound statement.
But as I tell people, "I don't know anything about sex. I was MARRIED." So I have little to tell you about women as a sex. But there is something about women as WRITERS that fascinates me.
Women writers tend to fall in love with the male characters they create. Agatha Christie was very upset with the fact that Hercule Poirot became so popular. I quote her word for word, "I wouldn't have minded if I had made him HANDSOMER."
Anne Rice admitted that she fell in love with her character The Vampire LeStat. If you read Inglis Fletcher's books, you will see that she was in love with Duke Roger. Colleen McCollough was so in love with her version of Julius Caesar that it is almost embarrassing to read it.
Which probably explains why a really good female writer is the best possible read in these genre. No man can throw his whole being into fiction the way a woman can.