March 18, 2013
What does it mean to ‘write like a girl’?

mc1rk:

seemstween:

 me:  i don’t know if i like zambreno’s prose style in green girl

 Lk:  yeah?

 me:  yeah

 Lk:  she seems too flowery

 me:  yeah

 Lk:  frilly

i like no frills

 me:  i was going to say, ‘she writes like a girl’

 Lk:  hahah yes

 me:  yeah

seems weird

to think that

 Lk:  seems normal

 me:  but like it feels distinctly feminine

by weird i mean bad

I like that hysterical manic prose though; I think we sometimes overvalue some Hemingway minimalist shit, some sort of masculine ideal of objectivity and detachment, where I get off on all that self-involved ranty rhyming and kind of manic alliteration and so on, the things that read nicely but sound, to be frank, a little crazy. Also odd as Green Girl (granted i read it over a year ago now I think) seemed really, really controlled to me — the book is nothing if not deliberate, and I think there’s a lot of value (both literary and emotional) in that sort of deliberately controlled & displayed mania and panic and confusion

agreeeeeeeee

(Source: seemstween)

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  1. pavlovianboner said: it took me a long time to get into her style too and reading green girl made me not want to read the mad wives of modernism which i was more excited about. her style seems really entitled. it reads like a blog. if i wanted to read a blog, i would.
  2. lk-shaw said: what does it mean to write like a bad bitch? earnestly want to know…
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  4. mikkipedia reblogged this from mc1rk and added:
    agreeeeeeeee
  5. mc1rk reblogged this from seemstween and added:
    I like that hysterical manic prose though; I think we sometimes overvalue some Hemingway minimalist shit, some sort of...
  6. mc1rk said: think it’s a problem though if we consciously strive to “not write like girls,” think that’s a problem & part of our bizarre valuing of striving to be “less” / neater / more controlled / less hysterical as women?
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