I just find it interesting that I so often see the criticism that "___ needs to hire more women writers", and here I am, a woman writer, and I have trouble with female characters and apparently gender stereotypes.
I have every confidence your women will come out great! I absolutely adored your cast of characters in "Desert Orkids" (which I, um, may have forgotten to leave feedback on. Whoops.) I've found that using people as a basis for a character gives them a good base to start from, and they flow more naturally. You're thinking about their flaws and their internal workings, which I think is the pitfall of a lot of Mary Sue writers.
Heck, I have an OC from my original fandom (that I'm still not naming out of embarrassment) that's a classic Mary Sue from what I can tell, but people seem to love her. But they're a weird fandom, so I kind of just look the other way.
I'd like to write more Weir fic, but I... I don't find her boring, but I guess maybe she just doesn't really engage me. I just about fell asleep during "The Real World" which had some nice elements to it. I love using her as a supporting cast, but not really as a main character.
Keller has really grown on me in the past few months. I think I really started to actively like her in "Trio", and rewatching some of the earlier episodes her restrained behavior is actually kind of endearing. I've been wanting to write a tag to "Vengeance" (Rodney whumping, of course), that deals with her trying to fill Carson's shoes and leads to her talk to Elizabeth in "First Strike". She has a lot of potential, I'm really hoping they choose to explore it in season five.
Teyla... eludes me. For no good reason. It's kind of sad because I've really been wanting to write something with her but I can't seem to nail down her voice.
To be fair to the fic I'm writing is AU and set on Earth, so that cuts out half of Team Sheppard right there. It's also told completely from John and Rodney's perspective, who are very isolated at this point in their lives and hardly interact with anyone at all, much less women. So that might actually be part of the problem right there. Maybe it's not me, just the characters?
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I have every confidence your women will come out great! I absolutely adored your cast of characters in "Desert Orkids" (which I, um, may have forgotten to leave feedback on. Whoops.) I've found that using people as a basis for a character gives them a good base to start from, and they flow more naturally. You're thinking about their flaws and their internal workings, which I think is the pitfall of a lot of Mary Sue writers.
Heck, I have an OC from my original fandom (that I'm still not naming out of embarrassment) that's a classic Mary Sue from what I can tell, but people seem to love her. But they're a weird fandom, so I kind of just look the other way.
I'd like to write more Weir fic, but I... I don't find her boring, but I guess maybe she just doesn't really engage me. I just about fell asleep during "The Real World" which had some nice elements to it. I love using her as a supporting cast, but not really as a main character.
Keller has really grown on me in the past few months. I think I really started to actively like her in "Trio", and rewatching some of the earlier episodes her restrained behavior is actually kind of endearing. I've been wanting to write a tag to "Vengeance" (Rodney whumping, of course), that deals with her trying to fill Carson's shoes and leads to her talk to Elizabeth in "First Strike". She has a lot of potential, I'm really hoping they choose to explore it in season five.
Teyla... eludes me. For no good reason. It's kind of sad because I've really been wanting to write something with her but I can't seem to nail down her voice.
To be fair to the fic I'm writing is AU and set on Earth, so that cuts out half of Team Sheppard right there. It's also told completely from John and Rodney's perspective, who are very isolated at this point in their lives and hardly interact with anyone at all, much less women. So that might actually be part of the problem right there. Maybe it's not me, just the characters?