Thou Art the King of Glory

To be honest, I have never thought about my writing as influenced by my gender or qualities distinctly unique to my femininity. However, as I am thinking about it now, I can tell you that I do not have a definite answer for you… because it begs the question, “Are topics significant to me because I am a girl or are they significant because I am Julia and I have been influenced by the life given to me?”

I am an emotional writer, I will admit. I am honest and expressive with the emotional experiences I share and quite poetic and flowery in most of my creative writing. But is that innately feminine? Everyone has emotions. Everyone appreciates flowers. I can tell you I have read flowers by more males than females in my short life. I guess general societal consideration has categorized such things rather femininely, as opposed to stereotypically masculine topics, but the essential interest in emotional nuance is human ultimately… so I would consider my emotional writing as a consequence of my soul, not my womanhood.

If we are speaking in feminine stereotypes, which specialize in relational dynamics, my writing does not necessarily emulate such core tendancies. I would not consider my writing a place where people are the main topics. I consider the discussion of people as a topic to work towards in my writing, almost as a greater level to earn through first the genre of self-reflection. In the world of writing I am a landscape photographer in the midst of portrait specialists. I do admit that, though not usually my main focus, my writing is full of miniature “portraits” within the frame of a greater landscape and have a place in the work based on our relational connection, which I would say is a lesser emulation of the greater feminine value. But again… isn’t that just a human value?

What do you think?