After all, women buy most of the novels published every year, even crime novels and strong female protagonists are key not just to book sales, but also to the dramatic adaptations this writer clearly envisions. The theft of a set of rare jewels from a high-end hotel was well-conceived: the credibility of the main character was the defining factor in the rewrite I advised. My client’s story, set a bit in the past, is a detective story whose central character is a female cop working in a robbery unit on a big-city police force. And whenever I comment on issues like gender identification in a novel, my goal is always to help the writer create a wholly credible world on the page, with characters that ring true to readers I have no “agenda” separate from that. A review of a client’s novel brought up fascinating issues of gender in fiction: how does a male author convincingly portray a female protagonist fighting for her place in a man’s world? Let me point out upfront that I am doing a little fictionalizing of my own to respect the client’s privacy. Teachers say they learn a great deal from their students I’m often editorially refreshed by new assignments. As a freelancer I love learning new tricks of the trade, even after all the years I’ve been in it, as well as thinking of new applications for older ones.
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