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This week: Battle of the Sexes Edited by: Gaby  
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My favorite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.
~ Peter Dinklage
Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman; I think she's amazing.
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I have a few questions for you before I delve into the actual newsletter and explain my reasoning.
When you write, do you write from a male or female standpoint or both sometimes?
Of all the superheroes out there, who is your favorite?
As I was growing up - and that's really not too long ago  - I loved watching He-Man, the cartoon, and Superman. Those two would be my two favorite superheroes of all time. Their power's irrelevant to me. It's the characters themselves I enjoyed. I never could grasp that Batman was any type of hero or some of the others. I'm not sure why, but my choices were final and to this day, after watching so many movies about different superheroes, I still stand by my first two choices.
When it comes to writing, I tend to write from the male perspective rather than the female. It's not even a question or a struggle to decide who'll be my main character and why. It's an automatic response to write from the male POV. Over the years I've realized that writing from a female standpoint, I tend to dig into the wrong direction of the story. I've had countless troubles controlling the impulse to dig too deep into the female psyche and have always failed. While my male characters aren't superficial or shallow, they are steady and more real to me than any female character I've ever written about.
This brings me to a recent blog post from blimprider where he shares his own opinion on superheroes, Wonder Woman to be exact, and his own writing. We are all entitled to our own opinion and no one is allowed to really judge that, but rather consider it, think it through and while we can debate on it, we still end up with our own opinion. It got me thinking about my own view of female characters versus the male characters I lean toward.
Every character we write about is some sort of superhero in their own story. They may or may not have powers, but they are who they are and develop throughout your writing. If they didn't, it'd be a rather boring story. Not only does it have to have an ending but a final conclusion as well. They grow as the story keeps going.
We are influenced by what we hear, read, and see, what our own life's experience is, and our own personal preferences. A superhero doesn't have to have powers to be called as such, a mystery doesn't necessarily have to be solved in order to be called that, a romance story shouldn't always end on a good note to be a great romantic novel. While some readers have certain expectations, dare to be different and break the curse of what is expected of you as a writer. Write what feels right to you.
Perhaps I'm drawn to write from a male POV because I feel as if I have a better connection with him rather than with her. Are female characters really that complex? Or are they being considered as a certain stereotype where one size fits all? That can't be right and isn't true. Male characters aren't simple either but they aren't considered complex by anyone's standard. Why is that? As writers we must show what others don't see. It's not always about the plot. Sometimes, it's just about the characters themselves. When you put words on a page, you always consider to create at least one likable character in order to connect with the reader. When you do, does that mean he/she's different and stands out in a crowd? No, it only means that none of us and none of our characters are exactly the same. Not all of us dress to impress someone, not all of us refrain from doing something just because society demands or expects it. Each person is unique and so are the characters we read and write about.
How different they are shows exactly in the Wonder Woman movie, in a single picture, where she's standing with the four men who stood by her side to help her. A woman, a hero, different yet equal. Does it require for a woman to have superpowers in order to stand next to a male superhero and have her picture taken? Think on it.
'til next time!
~ Gaby 
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