News:

SMF - Just Installed!

Main Menu

Recent posts

#1
Books / Re: Max's Books Dev Blog Vol 1...
Last post by maxadmin - Jun 21, 2025, 01:07 AM
We now have a cart ;D
#2
Books / Re: Max's Books Dev Blog Vol 1...
Last post by maxadmin - Jun 19, 2025, 04:23 AM
And this is how an actual book will look.
#3
Books / Max's Books Dev Blog Vol 1.
Last post by maxadmin - Jun 19, 2025, 04:18 AM
Here is how the store will look atm  8)
#4
General Discussion / Re: androgynous writing
Last post by maxadmin - Jun 19, 2025, 04:14 AM

Gertrude stein writes badly and also like a woman... maybe that is what you are looking for  ;D

I think Kafka is a good answer since in his writing it is sometimes hard to distinguish the gender of characters. Instead of thinking about writing androgynously as something stylistically in the middle of a spectrum, it could be interesting to look for writing that is devoid of all mention of gender. Not sure what a good example of that would be however
#5
General Discussion / androgynous writing
Last post by latenite_streetlight - Jun 16, 2025, 09:09 PM
Just started reading a theory book on Finnegans Wake, haven't tried reading the actual thing but anyways-

There's a part about prose/lyrical writing being 'feminine' i.e. Mollys flow at the end of Ulysses- then technical writing or scientific writing is masculine, also 'theory writing' itself. There's the mind/body distinction within language mirroring man/woman.

I have to write in a technical way in my job but I also write poetry, I'm also trans, do I feel gender euphoria from writing 'like a man' when I write in a dry and scientific way?

What if flow and lyricism were associated with male writing, and women wrote sharp, stagnant sentences that only explained the facts and had no dreams/intuition/feeling?

What would it look like to write androgynously? Who is an androgynous author? Kafka? The writing is dense but
also intuitive, like dreaming,