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Blind_Justice
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Greatsword? Hobbit? Oiled & musclebound? I'm not a woman, but when I search for fantasy stories, I'd like to see a healthy mixture of chainmail-bikini-wearing warrior-queens, sex slaves and fuckable monsters like serpent-people.
And since that particular mixture hasn't been properly served since the late '70s, I have to write that stuff myself.
And since that particular mixture hasn't been properly served since the late '70s, I have to write that stuff myself.
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It depends on what mood I'm in! I like to browse new releases and check the stories that are recommended to me.
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Sorry, but that's rather indeterminate.
There is, so far as I can tell, no way to extract stats on male viewers vs female viewers. Self-identification is, to say the least, suspect. Given that, any study of which tags are most popular for women is going to run aground very quickly.
Asking the women who frequent AH is perhaps better, but consider that the female denizens of AH are a very small slice of the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of female Lit readers. Consider too that they are primarily writers and that not all writers spend much time reading other people's stories. Consider as well that not all of that smallish group read Fantasy. Lastly, what proportion of whose left look at story tags. My point is that the ladies here are not necessarily the target audience you're looking for.
I'm afraid there's simply no way to tell and I'm not sure it would serve you well in any case. I'd be surprised if there was any particular direct correlation between which tags are used for searches most often and which stories are most popular.
Write your story and don't worry about tags. Good luck!
There is, so far as I can tell, no way to extract stats on male viewers vs female viewers. Self-identification is, to say the least, suspect. Given that, any study of which tags are most popular for women is going to run aground very quickly.
Asking the women who frequent AH is perhaps better, but consider that the female denizens of AH are a very small slice of the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of female Lit readers. Consider too that they are primarily writers and that not all writers spend much time reading other people's stories. Consider as well that not all of that smallish group read Fantasy. Lastly, what proportion of whose left look at story tags. My point is that the ladies here are not necessarily the target audience you're looking for.
I'm afraid there's simply no way to tell and I'm not sure it would serve you well in any case. I'd be surprised if there was any particular direct correlation between which tags are used for searches most often and which stories are most popular.
Write your story and don't worry about tags. Good luck!
SimonDoom
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I would make a slight amendment to this: Write your story FIRST, and THEN worry about tags.
Once you've got a story done, then figure out what the best tags are for it. You can do some homework looking through the tag section. You might come back to this forum with a post in which you describe the story and ask contributors what tags they would use to attract women readers.
But there's no way to know without knowing something about the story.
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Agreed, Simon. Do you dress up as Yoda for Halloween?
SimonDoom
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Green and short enough, I am not.
