The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.
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From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.
A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.
The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.
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