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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5088584" data-attributes="member: 54707">That's interesting and I did not know that. I'm gonna look that up. See what it implies. But if I'm reading you right then Women's Literature is what we'd call Literary (Capital L) and various incarnations of Chick Lit are more like genre-based, commercial writings. That would make sense to me. Though I'm all for things being both Literary, and Commercially/Popularly successful so maybe I can find a way to wrap them around each other.That may be nothing more than a regional and/or generational thing. Around these parts ladies is almost always a term of respect for females, though I guess it could be applied differently in a bar. And probably nobody my age would say lady if they really meant, "not a lady."I meant lady as in the female version or variant of gentleman. Odd to me I gotta explain that (never occurred to me I'd need to) but I guess times and cultures and vocabulary uses do change. Plus meaning connotations vary by region.That's interesting to me too. Didn't know there was a male version of chick lit. Is humor a big part of both genres?Thanks everybody for these and other examples. It'll give me something to look into.And yeah I'm looking for authors/books, and explanations of what these things mean.While walking in the woods I thought about what Eric had posted.I found these parts most interesting:Ruminating on those I started to work out a very basic plot idea in my head.Woman works in big city. It's dirty, congested, maybe dangerous. Dissatisfied with job and life. Finds out she has some disease, maybe cancer, maybe not. Moves out into the deep country. Starts encountering very odd and weird things. Sheds urban existence. Starts feeling a lot healthier. Takes up an entirely different kind of occupation. Meets guy who at this point (in my head) may or may not be a ghost. Or is odd in some other way. That's all I got so far.But I'd like to know about other touchstones or key points in chick lit and women's literature or whatever it may be that I'd like to investigate given Mark's post.See what I can take advantage of from both sources and maybe what new kinds of things I can invent.I hope some of the ladies (sorry ladies, but female when addressing females directly seems very cold and sterile to me, the way I was raised I reckon) will respond and tell me what they'd like to see. You know, if you could read a book written specifically for you then what would you like to see in it, and covered?And do you like a particular tone of voice, or way of writing?And another question that interests me. If you didn't know the author/authoress of a book, do you think you could tell, just from the way the writer uses language, if the writer was a man or a woman? I'm not talking about what they are writing about (the subject matter) but just from use of the language. Could you tell a man from a woman do you think? If you didn't know beforehand?Thanks again everyone.</blockquote>

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