It's weird that I feel uncomfortable writing women but not men. I am a woman! Why aren't I writing women? I wonder if it's because women seem to be judged to a much higher standard - even in fiction, so writing women is a much more fraught undertaking (I read and really enjoyed the essay at sarahtales btw, and also, didn't she used to go by a different name and write parodies, or is that someone else I'm thinking of?)

It's sort of embarrassing that I used to be so much better at not handwaving away the guilt and the cheating stuff that long ago. I think I got my tinhat stuck on too tight after that, haha.

(Thinking about this has also made me realise that I've done something terrible and lazy in the bigbang project with a female OC, and that she is so far the only woman in the story, and I can't believe I didn't see that before, omg)