The Future of Literary Heroines: Perfect or Flawed & Vulnerable?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Buzz 1: Today’s female reader is pressed for time, demanding as hell, and both scared and excited about the future…Female detectives, athletes and presidential candidates were rule breakers simply for trying … Today’s heroine has declared herself her own authority. www.writersdigest.com The Buzz 2: The best literary heroines are worth imitating… (mostly) fictional, but they have a great deal to teach us about ourselves and the real-life stories we find ourselves in. teaandinksociety.com The Buzz 3: Great female characters, like the great women you come across in real life, can change your perception of what's possible…inspire you to take risks, stand your ground, go on great adventures or simply speak up for yourself.… they're flawed and vulnerable, just like we all are. www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk We’ll ask Clea Simon, Edwin Hill, Catriona McPherson, and Carolyn Marie Wilkins for their take on The Future of Literary Heroines: Perfect or Flawed & Vulnerable?

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0:00.0	B. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:07.9	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:11.8	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:13.2	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:15.0	That's my code for four I guests.
0:16.6	Bonnie D. in the house, happy to be here.
0:18.3	We've got a really interesting topic for all of you.
0:21.6	I want to thank Ryan Treasure EVP.
0:23.6	He's got a new title at Voice America World Talk Radio, who is the voice of my intro, and
0:28.6	he is our special engineer today.
0:30.6	So, Ryan, thank you and welcome.
0:31.6	We are live on LinkedIn.
0:33.6	We are live on Facebook.
0:34.6	I want my guests even before I identify you and have you introduce yourself.
0:38.2	Ready, wave hello. Hello, LinkedIn. Hello, Facebook. We have some live viewers there. It's always
0:43.4	nice to see. Yes. So let me tell you what our topic is today. The future of literary heroines,
0:50.2	perfect or flawed and vulnerable. Oh my.
0:54.5	Those of you who love to read novels, this is for you.
0:57.2	Those of you who love to see, literary also applies in my world to film.
1:02.0	Who's that girl on the screen?
1:03.5	Who's that woman on the screen?
1:04.7	What is she doing?
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