To Suck or Not To Suck? [Writing Tips]

|6| Big Girls Do Cry...A LOT

I don't know what has happened in society, that make all of you portray us as big freaking crybabies.

And when I say "us", I mean women.

Why on earth does the main character cry at the littlest things sometimes?

Are you projecting your own feelings into your writing? Because if so, then that's not such a bad thing. That's good.

But if you aren't, then what the heck are you doing?

I'm embarrassed every time I read the words "I cried".

I literally just read something where a girl complimented a guy, and the girl that likes him cried.

She cried.

Instead of being a woman who doesn't take BS or go after what she wants, she decided that it was for the best if she just cried.

In other news, crying apparently gets you everything you want and need. Oh, and it even gets you your true love, who never even knew you had feelings for him in the first place.

Though as soon as you shed that one tear, the clouds open up and a magical beam of light shines down on you, and he realizes that you are the one.

Come on.

Who cries that much?

Who in the name of all things wrestling cries that much?

So what he talked to someone else? You are a 25 year old woman, and you are crying like a little girl would over Justin Bieber if he stopped making music.

Grow the heck up.

Terrible, yet laughable example:

"I'm sorry Alicia, but I just don't like you the way you like me."

She nodded solemnly at the words that came out of Roman's mouth. "I understand." She ran away without a second thought and cried her eyes out in the storage closet. She had had a tiny crush on Roman for a few days, but the fact that he rejected broke her in two.

I shed a few tears every time I read something like this.

Now let us throw in some of Foxy's crazy aspects. Or in this case, sane:

"I'm sorry Alicia, but I just don't like you the way you like me."

"Oh, okay," she said upbeat. She wandered off to find her friend Paige.

"What did he say," Paige asked, even though she was eavesdropping around the corner.

"He said he didn't like me like that, but that's his lost. He will never find someone as perfect as me."

"That's the spirit, Foxy. How about we go get some shots to celebrate your women empowering attitude?"

Alicia laughs. "That sounds like a great idea."

Now do you see what I did there? I made the woman look strong in the scenario, and I played Roman off to be the idiot.

Why?

Because dang it, if you only have one freaking job in life, it should be to make yourself come off as the best thing on the menu. Not the scraps that nobody wants when the meal is done.

To Suck

The MC not getting a straw, and sucking it up because she's a big cry baby. It should be illegal to cry that much.

Not To Suck

Kick butt. Know that your character is the stuff, and that no one can tear them down from their position on the totem pole. It's okay to cry in a serious or real heartbreaking situation, but if he winks at another girl and she cries rather than slap him, she needs some help.