How does one write and appeal to women? I understand how to write and appeal to men since I am one. I can open McCarthy, Chandler or Hemingway and enjoy what's in my hands and understand what elements precisely are helping me to enjoy it. But I want to figure out what elements make women enjoy a book. What does "a really good book" look like to a woman and why?
>>25218393Go read Fourth Wing
I'd suggest not worrying about it and write them the way you want them to be. That's what women do.
On the off chance you are serious try Florence Nightingale books
>>25218393"He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers—and spirit itself will stink.Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking."
>>25218393They love self-insert stuff. That's it. I don't really think they enjoy anything they can't reduce to a reflection of themselves.
>>25218393I would recommend by default farming anecdotes and sentences from women you meet but obviously nobody wants to hear about opinions on fast casual food and nothing else original so idk, probably better just to try and avoid writing them.
>>25218393I really like books that show the back and forth in one's mind. Like I guess indecision. And making choices and coming to terms with them. Like Remains of the Day I felt did that well. Also just general pondering about the world in a way that feels very human and not forced. I really enjoyed My Cousin Rachel and how people's intentions weren't clear. It gave me a sense of paranoia in a safe environment. I like obsessive yearning. Maybe some hopelessness. I like the puzzle of trying to figure someone out. I want a spell to be cast on me so I feel like I'm part of the world and this little world lives on in me like a life I lived in the past. The orphanage in Jane Eyre - I feel like I spent some time there many years ago. Anyway hope this helps.
>>25218871>answer that isnt incel garbagewhat the crap
>>25218393You can't write to appeal to 'women', you can only sell books that appeal to women because 'women' here is just a marketing demographic
Just have a handsome billionaire, pirate vampire obsess over the bland female protagonist/reader self insert?It’s very easy
There you go
>>25218393As a broad trend, what ive noticed is more of a bias towards books where the emotional inner life of characters does not stand on their own, but are in various complex ways intertwined with that of other characters to create a social fabric. This is broadly in contrast with men, which are generally more biased towards depictions of isolated inner lives. Hemingway's Old man and the sea, Dostoevsky, Moby Dick all tend towards psychological portraits of singular, isolated people. The obvious and stereotypical examples of such 'social' inner lives are through romance/love, where the inner states of two characters are increasingly defined through the other. Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights are popular examples. 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera is another good example quite popular with women, and its central conceit is to explore different philosophical stances by seeing how they interact in various social/romantic settings. A non-romance example is Woolf's The Waves, which describes this intertwined subjectivity of a group of childhood friends.
>>25219958boobed boobily was funnier
>>25220402That's the male aimed one, isn't it?
>>25218393Read women's literature. It's the only thing that works.
>>25220036oh yes i see it! madonna with a fur coat has this intertwining but it has both romantic and non romantic. like the guy he works with and his relationship with his family. despite all these connections he still feels so isolated and weird to me. i've been thinking about this since yesterday and how books could be put on a spectrum of like ultra masculine vs ultra feminine. and how my favourite books are somewhere in the middle. like madonna in a fur coat and remains of the day. i'm thinking anna karenina will fit this but haven't read it yet.
If you want to appeal to serious literature fans who just so happen to be women, you need to write good literature - just as you would if you wanted to appeal to men.If, however, you want to appeal to the widest base of women possible, write smut (see Minotaur Milking Farm) OR romantasy where a beautiful woman is rescued by a handsome, charming man (see Court of Mist and Fury for inspiration) OR you can write about how hard life is as a woman (see Bell Jar by Plath). Basically, write anything where a woman can self-insert and feel good about herself.
>>25218393https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=3nlbfZGFKuI
>>25218393Every guy wants to be Jesus.Every woman wants to be Mary.
