Female characters. When fifty per cent of your potential target audience is female, if you’re not writing them in your screenplay or novel? You’re making a BIG mistake! But how should you approach your female characters? That’s the million dollar question … After all, women in real life are complex, varied and flawed. Knowing where to start in creating three dimensional female characters for your story is extremely difficult. So … perhaps it’s easier to figure out how NOT to write female characters? Script editor, novelist and owner of the UK’s top screenwriting blog www.bang2write.com, Lucy V Hay has spent the last fifteen years reading the slush pile. She has learned to spot the patterns, pitfalls and general mistakes writers make when writing female characters – and why. In How Not To Write Female Characters, Lucy outlines: • WHO your character is & how to avoid “classic” traps and pitfalls • WHAT mistakes writers typically make with female characters • WHERE you can find great female characters in produced and published content • WHEN to let go of gender politics and agendas • WHY female characters are more important than ever Lucy is on a mission to improve your writing, as well as enable diverse voices and characters to rise to the top of the spec pile.