"How do you write a believable female protagonist?"

[PeacefulMyst]

Think of yourself as a creepy guy stuck in his room for years barely leaving and has 0 experience with talking or interacting with females other than his mom. And the only media he has consumed of females are kinky doujins.

Now in this case, how would you write a female char that's believable?


(before you say anything, yes. I know the other thread exists)

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Delete object self

 

[Zero300]

Write a mom character

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Think of yourself as a creepy guy stuck in his room for years barely leaving and has 0 experience with talking or interacting with females other than his mom. And the only media he has consumed of females are kinky doujins.

Now in this case, how would you write a female char that's believable?


(before you say anything, yes. I know the other thread exists)

Tsundere

 

[Corty]

If you are that kind of guy, why are you trying to even write a believable woman? Just write your dream woman, the one you would want to have.

It would resonate with you, makeing it easier for you to write.
It would resonate with others who are like you.
It would be a smut story anway, so who cares.

Ps: Write it like you would any other character and tell your readers, she acts the way she does, because she is not like any other woman. She is special. Problem solved.

 

[DarkGodEM]

Think of yourself as a creepy guy stuck in his room for years barely leaving and has 0 experience with talking or interacting with females other than his mom. And the only media he has consumed of females are kinky doujins.

Now in this case, how would you write a female char that's believable?


(before you say anything, yes. I know the other thread exists)

Write a female character that is a whore. That way you stick your experience with doujins.
Jokes aside. Females are just males but more into cute things, make-up and emotions. Write a female like that kinda gay friend you have.

Or read my Necro book. Most of my characters are female, and nobody complained they were not believable.

 

[WingsOfPhantasy]

What the hell is a female? Some kinda Lovecraftian creature?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

What the hell is a female? Some kinda Lovecraftian creature?

Nah, Paul is a male.

 

[Bartun]

I don't know, I'm just a dinosaur.

 

[lambenttyto]

It would be a smut story anway, so who cares.

Hahahaha! That's funny.

I write excellent female characters. Make characters too, and I'm a dude.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Hahahaha! That's funny.

I write excellent female characters. Make characters too, and I'm a dude.

Thx for flexing.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Ah. The emphasis on "Believable". Now we are just discussing writing theory.

Front load it.

What I mean is, put everything you think the reader will have problems believing in the first chapter. My cat will not get off my head so forgive spelling mistakes. Anyways. Whatever it is you think people will not believe, you put it in the first chapter and people will accept it. After that, you just need to make sure everything is a logical continuation of whatever impossible bullshit you put in the first chapter.

For example, I have a book on reverse sexual morality. It had some limits on what I could do, so I made, Reverse Morality with Superheros.

In the first chapter of IWS, I made it clear, reverse sexual morality and SUPERHEROES. In the first chapter of FTS, I actually had the MC Isekai'd and implied that the sexual morality of the world was flipped. THAT WAS IT.

So, FTS is much more subtle and I have my hands tied on how extreme I can do shit. The more extreme FTS gets, the less believable the story. But since I front loaded all my impossible shit in the first chapter, and everything since then is a logical extension of the BS in the first chapter, it is "Believable".

In IWS, The MC is about to go on a date with a Plant woman who shrinks down to a flat chested Loli when she is dehydrated and is stacked if she gets enough fluids. How "believable" is that? In FTS, if I had that happen in chapter 23, the reader would be going, "What the fuck?" but in IWS, not a problem.

You want a belivable woman? Establish the traits of said woman and the society she experiences in chapter one, then just follow the logical progression of said established facts.

It is called FICTION for a reason. Just follow the acceptable tropes, and the audience won't have any problems.

 

[PeacefulMyst]

I don't know, I'm just a dinosaur.

I never made an implication it had to human....

 

[lambenttyto]

Thx for flexing.

That's the thing about body builders. It's hard to know when they're flexing.

 

[NotaNuffian]

That's the thing about body builders. It's hard to know when they're flexing.

Pretty sure their entire existence is all about flexing.

You don't go into body building without not being a showboat.