Inspirations
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People say that gaining life experiences is the best possible path to inspiration. Drugs and risky situations make for the best short stories and heartbreak makes a novel truly captivating. You need to know your story in order to portray it truthfully and spark people's interest. Even though this sounds like a no-brainer isn't it just bullshit in it's purest form? How many of the modern romance novels, written by women contain anything new or amazing- a story that fascinates you as you haven't even thought that it could possibly turn this way? As I have read my fair share of those, I can tell you that not many do. And even such as Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" can seem rather generic if you exclude the interesting epoc they took place in. And naturally they are considered classics, but is it because of the love story? It is true that it can provoke tears in the more sensitive of women, but isn't it the learning value of the book that makes it as inspirational as it is known to be? It allows us to take a look into what life for young women looked like at the time and do so through the eyes and pen of a women, who lived through it. She gives a female perspective of a male dominated society while including a love story that is now repeated by many modern authors.
In society now, post-feminist women believe that anything they want is what they deserve and therefore they should achieve it. If they want to wear short skirts- they should. They don't do it for men, but for themselves. This is the key to post-feminism and naturally this readiness to strive for each desire filtered in to the writing of modern women. But in its' core has female writing really changed when it comes to romance novels? Is it possible to read a love story that we haven't read 1000 times before? Or is writing from your own experience in the love field leave you with nothing surprising?
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