The boy is asleep and I am awful at writing meta, but I'll have a go at it.
As far as agency goes, if a character, any character doesn't have agency period I imagine you're in for a pretty dull ride because this character is so flaccid, they probably don't even have the motivation to get up out of bed to pee.
I suppose providing your characters with agency within the world you've built might go doubly for female characters, if only that they have to wave twice as hard to get attention away from the male characters. Focusing on her actions, her mistakes and grabs for acknowledgment of her existence, and positively enough that she is making ripples instead of being rippled over. But then she's labeled a Mary Sue for being too speshul. Let's not get you started on Mary Sues though. XD
As far as plot goes:
1)THIS so much! The books that come to mind immediately are the Crown of Stars series by Kate Elliot. I liked this series a lot when it started, just because it was so intricate, and had so many interesting female characters, but it just kept going on and on and I just stopped caring. Oh yeah, and Naruto, but I kind of give it a pass in that for being a serial and for making Jump a lot of money so they can finance up and coming artists.
2) You mean once a character is dead, they should stay dead? Or that they shouldn't survive obviously mortal wounds just because the author is too much of a weenie to kill them?
3) Though I really hate the reverse, when a book becomes all about how miserable the character is and how completely superficial all their relationships are because of circumstances and dammit, I just want you to throw me a bone with this book you meanie, cause I'm already so bummed out. End rant against Robin Hobb, who isn't at fault, because I'm not the sort of person she's writing to.
4) This is the primary reason I don't read category/genre romances because a lot of them (or at least the ones I picked up and quickly put down) are nonsensical. Stopping the story and uh, plugging in a random sex scene, just because you couldn't fit it anywhere else/your editor said there had to be one somewhere is just sloppy writing.
5) Ouran High School Host club is super guilty of this one. Even as a serial, it should have ended a long time ago. I'm having trouble coming up with a book that did this - probably because I lost interest and didn't finish it, which is not exactly a rare thing for me to do.
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As far as agency goes, if a character, any character doesn't have agency period I imagine you're in for a pretty dull ride because this character is so flaccid, they probably don't even have the motivation to get up out of bed to pee.
I suppose providing your characters with agency within the world you've built might go doubly for female characters, if only that they have to wave twice as hard to get attention away from the male characters. Focusing on her actions, her mistakes and grabs for acknowledgment of her existence, and positively enough that she is making ripples instead of being rippled over. But then she's labeled a Mary Sue for being too speshul. Let's not get you started on Mary Sues though. XD
As far as plot goes:
1)THIS so much! The books that come to mind immediately are the Crown of Stars series by Kate Elliot. I liked this series a lot when it started, just because it was so intricate, and had so many interesting female characters, but it just kept going on and on and I just stopped caring. Oh yeah, and Naruto, but I kind of give it a pass in that for being a serial and for making Jump a lot of money so they can finance up and coming artists.
2) You mean once a character is dead, they should stay dead? Or that they shouldn't survive obviously mortal wounds just because the author is too much of a weenie to kill them?
3) Though I really hate the reverse, when a book becomes all about how miserable the character is and how completely superficial all their relationships are because of circumstances and dammit, I just want you to throw me a bone with this book you meanie, cause I'm already so bummed out.
End rant against Robin Hobb, who isn't at fault, because I'm not the sort of person she's writing to.4) This is the primary reason I don't read category/genre romances because a lot of them (or at least the ones I picked up and quickly put down) are nonsensical. Stopping the story and uh, plugging in a random sex scene, just because you couldn't fit it anywhere else/your editor said there had to be one somewhere is just sloppy writing.
5) Ouran High School Host club is super guilty of this one. Even as a serial, it should have ended a long time ago. I'm having trouble coming up with a book that did this - probably because I lost interest and didn't finish it, which is not exactly a rare thing for me to do.