Posted by paramount99 on
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I had most posts and comments about the story(line) from female members on the platform I initially added it to, and they drove 50% of that story - although I have to be honest, akin some something you mentioned up top there, how could I be certain they WERE female, and not guys acting as females, for their own deluded reasons.
But I got to know a handful of them (females on the platform) in pms etc, and they seemed genuine enough, and their own stories of their own lives seemed genuine enough, seemed to tally up, and were often times very interesting. Interesting interests me... often inspires my own writing - not that I do much of any quality these days.
Prudish and boring has never interested me nor inspired me - I also have to admit.
Your own writing might be influenced more by the romantics of the past... but when you dissect romance, it all comes down to the same thing, if you've actually lived. Many of those romantics had never even been in the arms of a man, let alone been romantic in any way shape or form. I used to write (25-years ago) short stories for various women's magazines and they went down really well (paid nicely too) but I learnt that you had to have a female pseudonym, or, as my agent used to say, the stuffy middle-class women wouldn't purchase or read it.
I spent 30-years playing competitive tennis (tennis what?!?) at about 15 different home counties clubs, and gradually got to know the stuffy teachers who I tried my hardest to get on with (most hated them absolutely) and one day asked one of the female members I knew was an English teacher and we kind of got on together, if she would look at the first 100-pages of a novel I was writing, and her first comment was: "What's someone like you doing writing a book?"
I actually had my own property development thing going, but told peeps I was in the construction industry, so the teachers probably assumed I mixed concrete all day for a living?!? They also were the ones who got really put out when I turned up with my first and only brand new 4X4 motor vehicle, and one (teacher) actually asked where I got the money for it... They even got the hump when me and my wife would go on vacation to Switzerland most years, once again talking about money, when I knew the head teachers were on a flipping good salary.
Some of the non teacher members of clubs would call them narcissists, trying their hardest to be moral and high thinking in front of their teacher clan while only really virtue-signalling from various moral high grounds.
I've also had girlfriends many years ago who were from very high standing and a few titled families (no not bragging) and I can tell you that gals from those backgrounds are the most sexually EXPERIMENTAL among all women, certainly within the UK. And some of these gals (well in their early 20s) instilled within me the illusion that all women were open to most things... which is completely untrue.
The middle class female teachers I knew were boring and hated most men, unless everyone else at the club had gone home, and they wanted to talk etc about their boring lives.
Is your book a romance?!?