October 3rd, 2008
You’ll find me at Romancing the Blog today. 
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SUPERNATURAL ♦ URBAN FANTASY ♦ CONTEMPORARY/SUSPENSE ♦ EROTIC ROMANCE
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Jordan SummersRomance Writer & Urban Fantasy Novelist
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Jordan SummersRomance Writer & Urban Fantasy Novelist
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Nice topic. That Scalzi post made me think hard, too.
by Charli October 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pmCharli, Thanks! Yeah, his post really hit me hard. I didn’t like how I felt afterwards. Made me really think about what I’ve been doing these last few years.
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by Dirt bike games » Post Topic » Welcome the dirt bike games to play blog October 3rd, 2008 at 6:07 pmNice post.
I’d hate to think that it boils down to gender. Then again, I know a whole lot more men who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds, the offended be damned, than women.
Then there’s a whole other angle such as to what’s deemed as “unprofessional” to blog about, and whether or not a writer should care about potentially offending readers. Because hot topics generally lend themselves to heated debates, and before you even have time to [perhaps] clarify something you’ve just lost a reader.
Writers, especially novelists, are told to write fearlessly, yet there are only a handful of them [that blog, in any case] I’ve seen that do just that.
I don’t think sad is the word…I’m going to go read that Scalzi post now.
by Soleil Noir October 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 pmSoleil, I do think gender has a lot to do with it because the male writers (and bloggers) don’t worry about being called unprofessional for speaking their minds. I don’t think it even crosses their minds.
I agree that there are very few writers who write fearlessly. I’m happy that some of my favorites do.
by Jordan Summers October 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pmJordan — just wandered by to say hi. [wave] I read your column and even bounced my own today off of it, and Kassia’s from Monday. I was reading yours and going, “Yeah… yeah. Yeah!” LOL! So I figured I’d come check out your blog.
I agree that there’s a strong gender-bias at work here, although I also agree that that sucks. But the Cult of Nice is highly subscribed in the mainstream romance world, whereas not so much in SF; in that community, even the women don’t tip-toe quite so much. Maybe it’s because romance is stereotypically “girly” and the writers and readers are so overwhelmingly female? :/ As someone said in your comments, women do police each other, and sometimes rather brutally. (Which is ironic given the topic, but anyway….)
Angie
PS — your link from the RTB page goes to http://www.jordansummers.com/js/ which gives a 404 error. Although I did make it here eventually.
by Angie October 8th, 2008 at 12:07 pmHey Angie, Thanks for letting me know about the link. It needs to have the js removed, then it’ll be fine…I think. :-O
I do think the gender bias is a big part of what occurs. I also think it’s heavily romance influenced.
by Jordan Summers October 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm