I'll start:>he scoffed...
>woman authorthat a thing?
>>25088650>She was plain
>>25088650>shoehorned politics>melodramatic ending>men in dialogue either sound like women or cavemen>Mary-Sues / fantady self-inserts>...
>>25088655This ruins your day
>>25088669goy slop
>>25088650>he was tall
>>25088669everyone already knows about rowling and christie. cant say im familiar with the rest of the literal whos
>>25088668the caveman thing is usually the deadest giveaway in my experience
>>25088650>S/he raised an eyebrow. >I looked at him. He stared at me. My eyes flashed at him. He glared at me. I felt his eyes on me. He was searching me for signs. My expression revealed nothing. His gaze was so gazey. We locked eyes briefly, then looked away. Did he notice me looking at him? (Continue for 500 pages.) >Intricate backstory for a tertiary character who will never appear or be mentioned again. >90% of the story takes place in the main character's head as she does literally nothing. >Erections described as pants tightening.
>>25088669its over.
>>25088839>Erections described as pants tightening.Really, what's the deal with that? Do women really think an Erection causes waistlines to expand?
>>25088669What ruins my day is the amount of brits up there. Nta
>female name on cover
>>25088855sorry about your small penis
>>25088650>>25088839My novel includes both these and I’m male. For me, the dead giveaway for a female author is when there’s a chauvinistic male minor antagonist who’s a pretentious prick and eventually gets BTFO by the morally and intellectually superior female heroine. Even the best female authors do this quite frequently.
>>25088955>eveleyn waugh>george eliot
>>25088831My mom loved Danielle Steele. She was her biggest fan girl in the 90s.
>>25088650>>25088839>I looked at him. He stared at me. My eyes flashed at him. He glared at me. I felt his eyes on me. He was searching me for signs. My expression revealed nothing. His gaze was so gazey. We locked eyes briefly, then looked away. Did he notice me looking at him? (Continue for 500 pages.) Opened the thread just to mention PRONOUN DENSITY.
>ask classmates what they're researching>male classmates are all researching fascinating, unique, or at least ambitious things>woman: "Misogyny in Rome">woman: "Misogyny and Hamlet">woman: "The intersection of misogyny and periods in Hamlet">woman: "Women">woman: "Opinions about women having sex in Weimar newspapers">woman: "Women in the work of Robert Musil">woman: "Vagina">woman: "I have a vagina">woman: "I'm a woman btw. Vagina here">woman: "Sex and periods in gender">woman: "Woman perceptions of woman, ,vagina, cooters breasts woman period I'm on my period clitorises in the work of the band Oingo Boingo and Hamlet's Perception of Clitoris Vagina Gender Studies">woman: "Queering Gender in Medieval Manuscripts: Your period or MY period?">woman: "Misogyny, Periods, and You: Ernst Cassirer on Substance, Function, and My Gay Love Affair with Gender Studies">woman: "Women in 'Woman's Work': Gendering Gender in the Social Sciences">woman: "Prostitution and Gender in Antebellum Calcutta">woman: "Gender">woman: "Sex and gender studies">woman: "Tampons, pads, and ironclads: Stonewall Jackson and Freebleeding">woman: "Einstein contra Bergson: Who rapes me more by having existed?"
