Readers, What are the tells that a male character has been written by a woman?
Men when together don’t talk all that much. When a woman writes male characters hanging with other men, they talk way, way more than men do in person.
Which makes sense! Men talk a lot more around women. So that’s what the ladies experience and so that’s what they write. But it’s not actually how men are when they are together without women around.
For instance, in the past I’ve hung around male friends for hours and we’ve exchanged all of ten words. And both liked it that way.