Are You Writing Serious Fantasy? II

[Saraphim]

I'm going to comment on something that you guys were talking about waaaaay up at the top of the page: gender in writing.

When I was a bit younger and first beginning to write, all my main characters were female. This isn't surprising, considering that I'm female. Anyway, lately, I've been trying out male MC's. The story I'm working the most on has six (or seven, haven't decided yet ) MC's and around half of them are male. The "ringleader", I suppose, evolved from a female to a male.

At any rate, I found that my male characters are more believable than my female ones. My female ones either turn out Mary-Sueish, or wimpy, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

Does anyone have any good tips on combining fantasy with sci-fi

Well, it looks like you're off to a good start, with your magic-technology relationship. That sounds quite interesting. I suppose something I could say is not to overload the story with complicated things of either type. This might confuse people who are fans of one and not of the other. Perhaps you might have a character who is illiterate to both technology and magic to sort of introduce things to the reader in a more subtle way.

Hope this helps. If not, then sorry for the time waste. You'll never get it back. Mwahahaha...