In a project of mine, a female character disguises herself as a man in order to be able to attempt to tame a dragon. Dragon taming is basically a...
In my story, my MC has a shitty life and thinks about killing himself constantly because men are oppressed by a feminist police force. But I'm...
Hello. From earlier votes and discussions both here and in other forums I have narrowed my pen names down to these. Now, which of these names do...
I have a story I'm working on written in first person, and I never actually describe this character to be a male or female since I could easily...
There's a poll on "Male or Female Protagonist?" that just started, but I thought it might also be useful to add a second axis for the writer, that...
Are you able to create a MC that is the opposite gender of you? I noticed, but I could be wrong, that women seem to be able to write male MC's...
My current and main project features reincarnation (to put it simply) - I have decided to split the story to four sections (and the number four is...
A while ago I read this article suggesting that men are more likely to write a male lead and women are more likely to write a female lead....
The last year I've noticed that I mostly can tell the gender of the author of a romance novel by his/her word choices, the way s/he describes...
Hello, I have a story where one character is a teacher. There is enough POV from her that we know her first name, but most of the story takes...
I think of creating a character first before choosing what gender identity they are and what their sexuality is, and their ethnicity, for the most...
So...if the first half (and part of the middle) of a book consists of primarily female characters, with only a few men or boys, what would be your...
Brain broken. Cannot think. I know there is a plural contracted form that is used in greetings (as in Dear Sir or Dear Madam), and it's...
Kind of techie, but interesting, I thought, and I suspect the effect is more pronounced in much of the fantasy genre that's popular here....
Like that title says, I have a character that I want to keep gender neutral. Reasoning? None in particular other than I just want to. :p I am...
I often find that authors will write about their same gender. I also find that this is not the case with myself. I usually have male characters...
As a reader sometimes I've discovered poorly written female or male characters that were developed by an author of the opposite gender. I'm not...
I'm playing with ideas for a magical world in which everyone is born with a fixed (typically very long by our terms) life expectancy that they are...
I ran into this problem when I started to really get into my main project last year and now that I've figured it out for myself I'm curious. When...
How does gender affect how you approach your story and your character? I was thinking about two of my "sucked into the video game" stories. Both...
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