Writer's Island prompt: Adventure
Nov. 12th, 2010 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ezekielsdaughterAdventure
My hero is a woman,
but she is no heroine.
A Heroine has one adventure:
the search for the Ring and the man who will rule her.
My hero read the “Hero’s Journey” and groaned.
She doesn’t want to meet the goddess.
She wants to be the goddess.
She doesn’t want to love the Father.
She wants to kill the Father
and serve him
to us
over pasta drenched in tarragon sauce.
in researching this,I picked up Joanna Russ' book "To Write Like a Woman" again. I found an old bookmark on a essay "What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write".
It reminded me of long discussions with my SF workshop who complained that my protagonist did not do things; things were done to her. I should have brought the Russ essay to the group. That said, Russ says that SF is the answer to this problem because SF is one of the few genres that can have gender neutral stories.
