2-16-09 Reaves, Crystalheart Chs 9-10

[jwdenzel]

You're right that it's such a low standard, yet so many books or movies fail.

Now I need to make sure that for my own work, I hit or exceed that standard!  ;-)

[jwdenzel]

I haven't read any Crystalheart, so I don't know how well this applies, but I'm reminded of a feminist's opinion I once heard for what makes a movie worth watching:

1) at least two named female characters
2) who have at least one conversation with each other
3) about something other than a man

I'm bringing this topic up again, briefly, if that's okay.   I just finished reading Brandon's WARBREAKER novel.  (I got an ARC from Tor because they are releasing the book itself in June).  Brandon has a few scenes in the novel where he successfully does what SarahG writes about above.  Two named females... having conversations... about topics not related to men or their gender.

And it worked great. 

So kudos to Brandon. Well done.  I hope we see more of that in his work, and all of ours as well.