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LoL. I am very sorry to say if you abandoned the Artifact series you would have a riot on your hands. I understand about your difficulty with female protagonists but even with that issue you write it as if you have no issue at all. I am assuming that it take longer to get into the correct frame of mind to put your thoughts into the proper "perspective" while writing the story.
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The truth is, it's impossible to get into the "right frame of mind". I'm not a girl, so I cannot think like a girl. I can only imagine how a girl would think, and the truth is those thoughts will never be quite right. The trick is to get close enough that at least the (majority-male) readership doesn't notice. The dream is to get close enough that the female readers (reader? Is there more than one?) don't notice. I doubt I have ever achieved this.
This is why my female leads tend to be very... boy-like in their attitudes. Reba and Lira were both basically tomboys: they spent their time in the woods, hunting and trapping, getting dirty and generally not caring how incongruous it seemed.
As to A3... okay, I won't abandon it. I'll just take another fifteen to twenty years to write the next installment, like I did with A2...
Eric Storm
PS: Unfortunately, while I am being facetious, there is a significant chance that I'm not wrong on how long A3 may take...
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