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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Could be. Take a look through Youtube, and look around the internet. Try to find some how-to's or "writing advice." The ones I happen upon, are almost invariably made by young women, who often published nothing yet, or only self-published one single book.
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Anecdotal. It also has nothing to with why more women might be being published.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Maybe, but still the impression is there. Working authors and people don't have _time_ to make one Youtube video after another talking about writing advice and giving tips how to write better books. Most of the people doing so have no meaningful work to refer to, and they are _mostly_ women, in my experience.
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Only if one holds rigidly to '50s standards as to what constitutes "working." And "non-working authors" (male or female) making How-to videos on Youtube has no bearing on the balance of male/female traditionally published authors writing books today (or yesterday, for that matter).
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
That gives the impression of someone who doesn't have a job (and thus lives on welfare and/or is supported by someone else), who writes for amusement, and makes video's about it, hoping to one day make it as an author.
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Again: purely anecdotal (and again ... depends on someone '50-ishly believing that "no-paid-job" equates to "tons-of-free time"). The number of women making "How-to" videos on youtube (regardless as to the quality of said How-to) has exactly zero to do with a) their employment status, and b) does not correlate (directly or indirectly) to why there might be more women today who have the audacity--nay, the
pure gall--to achieve the status of published (traditionally published, mind you) author.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Try it. Search YouTube and the internet and see for yourself.
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Why? It has no bearing whatsoever on the topic.