Author Archive: Felicia Grossman

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Exactly Like Other Girls

Exactly Like Other Girls

By Felicia Grossman One of the fiction tropes that annoys me the most is the “not-like-other-girls” female lead. She appears across genres and often eschews anything coded “feminine” like clothes and make-up and dating. She’s not popular, but she prevails.  Main characters like that and their real-life counterparts are wonderful and fun, but what makes […]

August 26, 2019 | By | 1 Reply More
Musicals And Writing

Musicals And Writing

When I agreed to write a piece for this fabulous website about how musical theater influences my writing, my first thought was: “How long am I allowed to ramble?” My second was: “How do musicals NOT influence my writing?”  Full disclosure, though you can probably tell from the [Title of Show] reference in the title, […]

February 2, 2019 | By | Reply More