In Favor of a Female Writer?

I've never been a huge proponent of female writers. As many of you know, outside of the first four Harry Potter books, I have not read a book written by a female author. This all sort of came about unintentionally, but ever since I was clued into my subconscious decision to avoid books written by females I have continued to do just that.

Naturally I tend to gravitate to writers who write similarly to me. (FYI they are making Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell into a movie) Surprisingly there is a female writer out there that I think writes with a style and flair similar to my own. She just so happens to be an old college friend (seriously if I'm not the biggest FOG you know than you should really reevaluate who you're friends with) that has recently started her own little blog.

She's very observant, witty, sarcastic, and much funnier than I am. What I like most about her writing is that she has a very realistic sense of not only the world/our twenty something culture, but also her participation in it.

For example:

I am severely obsessed with my Blackberry. This can not be a good sign, as I am a. unemployed and b. really, really not important. In fact, the only people bbm-ing and/or texting me are usually asking what time I’ll be home or what my evening plans are. (College).

Chalk it up to great branding or just our generation, but everyone seems obsessed with new media, including me.


She was kind enough to include a link on her blog to mine, although she did so by referring to me as her "writing nemesis." Now I have since included her blog both here and on the link list to the right (it's called "stopping to smell the roses"), but not simply to reciprocate the favor. I actually really enjoy reading what she has to say.

While she might refer to me as her "writing nemesis", I, in many ways, tend to view her writing as the female version of mine. For starters, whereas I wrote the "He Said" portion of the "He Said/She Said" column in our college newspaper, she wrote the "She Said" portion the following year. Furthermore, whereas I like to write about guy stuff like sports, poop, and bacon, she likes to write about chick lit, yoga, and femi-nazis like NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

So to the 6 or so female readers out there that like my writing but can't handle all the macho-bravado sports talk all of the time, give her blog a shot.