March 27, 2023

EP 193: How to stop sexualizing your characters

EP 193: How to stop sexualizing your characters
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Hi, everyone! Today, me and Tete talk about a topic that is extremely important to both of us: how to stop sexualizing our characters.

For the longest time, Tete and I have been sexualizing several of our male characters. For me, it was Joel Farber from my graphic novel, “The Book of Joel,” and for Tete, it was the protagonist of her novel, “70 Fierce Years,” Andrei Danilovich Novokshonov.

Sexualizing your characters can have a lot of detrimental effects on the writing process as well as on your life, if taken to the extreme. We explore this by asking the following questions:

  1. Why did we sexualize our characters?
  2. How did we wean ourselves off sexualizing our characters?
  3. When are we tempted to sexualize our characters? How can we stop it?
  4. What is the connection between sexualizing your characters and focus? Does sexualizing your characters detract from the writing process?

The artwork for this thumbnail is from the romance novel, "Royally Yours" by Emma Chase.

Read Tete’s “70 Fierce Years” (draft version) on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/70-Fierce-Years/info

Read my “The Book of Joel” on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/The-Book-of-Joel/info

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