Different stories to tell

[doversoul1]

Why women are lining up to reboot the classics

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/epic-win-why-women-are-lining-up-to-reboot-the-classics

At the centre of Natalie Haynes’s absorbing, fiercely feminist new novel A Thousand Ships, about the women caught up in the Trojan war, is Calliope, the muse of epic poetry.

This is probably nothing new but the last sentence of the article made me think:

But there are other ways to be remembered, and different stories to tell.

I have always thought it was a great pity that Ursula le Guin never got to write a story about the sister of Ged’s companion, Vetch (I think his name was). I can’t remember the sister’s name but she appears when Ged and Vetch stop at her home and expresses her yearnings to be able to go out into the world like her brother. Years later, when the Earthsea trilogy was accused of being male-centred or some such, le Guin wrote a most embarrassing pseudo fairy tale about Ged, now a grown man, who was sexually initiation by the female character he saved in the second book of the trilogy. I am still faintly hoping that a writer in a new generation might pick this sister up and tell us another story.

Do the forum members have any different stories you would like to hear or even to write?

[ed.] not limited to female characters

[Serial_Apologist]

I've often thought about where we might now have been, had not Reagan and Thatcher come to power.

I've often wanted to write a story, or stories, about a world where war and inequalities have been banished, where people with different life skills are included and made to feel valued, where nature is respected and appreciated, not constantly embattled, and where technology serves sustainability. The sad thing is, I'm just not knowledgeable enough about tech.

[jayne lee wilson]

Why women are lining up to reboot the classics

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/epic-win-why-women-are-lining-up-to-reboot-the-classics

At the centre of Natalie Haynes’s absorbing, fiercely feminist new novel A Thousand Ships, about the women caught up in the Trojan war, is Calliope, the muse of epic poetry.

This is probably nothing new but the last sentence of the article made me think:

But there are other ways to be remembered, and different stories to tell.

I have always thought it was a great pity that Ursula le Guin never got to write a story about the sister of Ged’s companion, Vetch (I think his name was). I can’t remember the sister’s name but she appears when Ged and Vetch stop at her home and expresses her yearnings to be able to go out into the world like her brother. Years later, when the Earthsea trilogy was accused of being male-centred or some such, le Guin wrote a most embarrassing pseudo fairy tale about Ged, now a grown man, who was sexually initiation by the female character he saved in the second book of the trilogy. I am still faintly hoping that a writer in a new generation might pick this sister up and tell us another story.

Do the forum members have any different stories you would like to hear or even to write?

I know ds probably won't like this contribution, but the Marvel films (Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool etc) and Game of Thrones have put many women, often very young women, in positions of Superhero power and influence on how the World turns out (and inspired many in the real world, surely)... and shown older men as deeply respectful toward them....
The Great Battle of the recent GoT (ep 8/3) was wonderful in the respect....

So many new stories to tell, happening all around us.....

Caster Semenya - a modern day Superhero!
Greta Thunberg - a modern day Superhero!